Blast from the Past.
This issue of things past has just majored in my world.
My spell in the cooler is no nearer being resolved and the ever presant detail of money presses harder; so today I will sign a contract to work on a Renaissance Museums Changing Lives Outreach Project. Working with Future Creative and Hampshire County Co.
But, the real reason for this post is another storey:
My long time friend since primary school needed to clear the loft of his late fathers home, he asked me to help him in this conciderable task.
This is the rub: He found the piece of wood that we burned together in primary school lessons. This was during the late sixties when we were about 8. We were featured in the local paper while doing this (sadley article lost). But this has been a long standing memory for us both for 40 years. So to see it again was like an archeological relic to me.
I had no memory of its visual content whatsoever. Only the feeling that the main task was to colour (burn) the shapes that were drawn on the wood. I dont remember in any way how the content was agreed or if there was any kind of storey unfolding etc. I remember the feeling that my magnifying glass was small and not as powerfull as my friends and his was more suited to the task I was doing. I seem to remember even asking my mother to buy me a more powerful magnifying glass. I dont think she realised the significance of this and I did’nt get one.
My friend’s memory of it was that he thought the picture was burnt on top of some kind pattern underneath? The reverse side of the wood had been used as a paint pallette with mixture of different colours, which may account for this?
Mr Holloway was our teacher and he stood out from other teachers at the school, as he played his guitar and I can now see with hindsight he was a ‘Hippy’. I particularly remember other classmates being very jelous of us. I remember them running up to me at playtime quite aggressivly saying ‘You lucky lucky batsrads you missed a spelling test last week doing that, and we’ve had so much maths to do this time’.
Thank you Mr Holloway, that was a very powerful event for me.
