And now a few words on the bookends project.<br>
Things , ideas or projects often just seem to happen! Liv and I were wandering aimlessly through town and passed the Party Shop in Church Lane and saw that the windows were full of Halloween Stuff. I don’t go a whole bundle on Halloween, it raises a raft of issues to do with my Faith that I’d rather not address thank you very much, but the stuff in the shop has a fair proportion of skeleton related stuff. <br>
I like skeletons, in a purely artistic sense that is. I’ve no interest in actual skeletons and my fascination with the Gothic doesn’t extend to having real cadavers as Objets D’art in my house. <br>
Amongst the skeleton related items offered to the Halloween Public were a two-foot semi-articulated Skelton and what for want of a better word I’d call Garlands of skeletons. <br>
Each garland has eight to ten 1/12th scale skeletons whose composition is such that the judicious application of a fag-lighter to the joints enables their limbs to be posed. <br> Hooray<br>
If got one Skeletal Dude rising from the pot-o-sand that joss sticks get poked into. He’s smoking a ‘fat one’ and pointing a tiny little remote control towards the Telly<br>
Skeledude No2 is sitting atop the Mushroom of Illumination., one hand on his noble tortured brow whilst reading from an as yet unmade book. Not sure what the book will be. If anyone actually reads this I’d be grateful for suggestions. <br>
All these things went well and I was moved to try something bigger, but what? <br>
Inspiration struck and I’m almost finished the Skeletal Bookends. One of the pair is Sisyphus (condemned forever to roll a stone up-hill, only to have it plummet to the bottom of the slope), the other is Prometheus, having his liver torn out by A Neagle…. Oops, an Eagle
Skeledude No2 is sitting atop the Mushroom of Illumination., one hand on his noble tortured brow whilst reading from an as yet unmade book. Not sure what the book will be. If anyone actually reads this I’d be grateful for suggestions. <br>
All these things went well and I was moved to try something bigger, but what? <br>
Inspiration struck and I’m almost finished the Skeletal Bookends. One of the pair is Sisyphus (condemned forever to roll a stone up-hill, only to have it plummet to the bottom of the slope), the other is Prometheus, having his liver torn out by A Neagle
….oops an Eagle <br>
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