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Sunday 14 October 2012

Telling Objects: Day 14

Today's object can perhaps be stretched to two. It hangs from a tiny bulldog clip, on my large, cork note-board in the art room. And, well it has something clinging to it which I'd better explain as well...




It's a postcard given to me by my wonderful friend, Neet. She bought it when I showed her around the Manchester Art Gallery. It depicts one of my favourite exhbits the building displays. A painting of Shakespeare's Ophelia. I'm drawn to the arm of all things. You can't see it in the postcard, but you can see where the original arm was painted, scrubbed out (badly) and done again. There's a shadow which shows where it was.  It's that imperfection that I love.

And the plastic skeleton hands? I've had these since I was a child. They glow in the dark. Some things just seem to stay in my life and this is one of them. And that's what noticeboards are for. To hang the miscellany of life. In fact, out of shot, to the left, is dangling a necklace, with a miniature birdcage hanging from it.

Until tomorrow

Px


6 comments:

olive said...

Yes Paul, I love that picture too.... and you cant go wrong with luminous arms!!! xx

Cath Wilson said...

Ah... that's REALLY interesting and says a lot about you x

Neet said...

Aaw Paul, didn't expect it to be hung up in your room. Aaw, glad it meant so much.

Will you be at the November meeting? I am missing you too much.
Love
Neet xx

kjjc said...

lovely to see the objects that mean something to you. we are missing you too!

alexa said...

Wonderful! I don't know this painting but I too love the unfinished and incomplete... How lovely to have things which have been with you so long. :)

Justie said...

Very cool postcard...