Digital Sorrow: A Tapesty of Modern Life:



Rising and Falling.
The Rise of the Ones and Noughts.


Stop and Go
hide and seek
up and down
on and off
 binary choices
recorded and filmed
 heard and seen, often 
 unknowingly in our
collective digital print.

Snap is an ungrateful word.
Like slap it stops your actions,
freezing you for a second.
To pose is also to impose upon you.
Where is the soul and inner spirit
in a photograph ?
A mere passing reality.
Whereas
The painter and sculptor look inward 
teasing out  a lasting essence 
of the subject.
The chosen media imprints a
personalised appreciation.
It lives on.

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Death Mask.




Unlike Dante, I'll not be requiring a death mask.
All that oil and plaster. No thanks.
Such vanity.

And, if I asked for one to be made ,
where would it lie?
As a bookend for my Game of Thrones
books; 
in a box with my Beefheart disks or

Iionically,  in the garden shed  amongst 
 the tools, which i
hardly ever use?

then again, i guess,
perhaps  stuck in the cherry tree
as a bird scarer.

No if I can leave this place
and shed some memories,
for people to laugh, smile
curse and frown.

Then Curlykale and i
will live on..

Ck 4/5/'19



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Last Tuesday D. and I visited the National Trust's property Croombe Court, landscaped by 'Capability' Brown.



We made our way down the slope to the house, in which was an tapestry exhibition by Grayson Perry .

 The main exhibit was entitled "Battle of Britain" and took up on side of the room.
It, was not ,as I first thought, about the battle in the air, during the Second World War; it was , in fact Mr. Perry's idea of the social and cultural divide in Britain today.

This was the left side of the Tapesty and showed  the workers with terraced houses, railway lines, graffiti, cycle park and pylons.



The right side showed the middle classes on the elevated motorway making their way to the continent via ferries and Eurostar. Underneath the bridge can be seen some homeless people and curiously a religious painting, superimposed upon the scene.


This is a view of the whole piece. Note the cycle rider ( Grayson?) in the foreground wearing a baseball hat and looking  towards the rainbow.

 There is so much in the detail here and it is well worth a visit and look.


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Only one more to say;
"May the 4th be with you
and to the wookiee
Grunt in peace."

WiFi for now.
Ck.

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