An external wall, with a band of white crackled stone along the bottom, and patchy messy muted shades of ochre and sand coloured plaster above. There is a huge crack running right the way across the middle of the wall, a sharp dark jaggedy line which looks to me like a country border through uneven terrain drawn on a map. There are some smaller cracks above and below. Presumably it is in the process of being repaired, because someone has put wide white bandage-like patches of fabric across bits of the cracks, one in an upside down L-shape in the lower centre of the image, and two rectangles on the right. But even these bandages are peeling at the corners, and feel haphazard and as if they were urgently applied in an emergency, rather than with planning and forethought. But still, it feels like an act of love and care for the poor wall, and there's a metaphor in there somewhere. It's ultimately a kind and hopeful picture.
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