School’s 300-Pound “Kindness Rock” To Be Repainted

 In 2022, Superintendent Hester wished for schools to generate “kindness rocks” to be left around the county. Principal Walker then asked the NCHS Art Dept. to paint the 300-pound metamorphic* stone in the front flowerbed as a huuuge kindness rock.

Winter was not kind to the art: cold and possibly also contact with de-icing agents made much paint spall off. Hasty field-restoration with black paint led to unplanned oddity like where an E and an N had flaked off, leaving the confusing message, “B e    Ki  d.”

We’ll miss those bees and look forward to the new art. 

(*Metamorphic stone has been altered  --usually hardened-- by geologic contact with extreme heat or pressure.  Our rock appears to be schisty quartzite  --rough quartz made more dense and vitreous through metamorphism.  The other "rock types" are igneous ["fire"-based, like cooled lava] and sedimentary [made of compressed sediment like shale or limestone].)

Throwback: Feona Hudson and Lillian Hinerman in the NCHS Art Room while painting bees on the "bee" kind themed Skin #1 of the rock in 2022. Isis Morales, Elizabeth Tiede, and Parker Gause also contributed to the 2022 project (all stone-heaving services provided by Mr. Ward).  Weather-related paint-spalling contributed to a decision by NCHS administration to have the rock repainted in 2023.

Bees and the slogan on the rock while in the Art Room in 2022.

(by NCHS Art Dept)