Tag Archives: play

27th August 2013 – brush

I stroke it through her fur, leaving perfect lines. She loves its white plastic bristles, its red wooden back. Eventually she’ll start to play, but for now she just luxuriates.

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6th August 2013 – street organ

Painted in bright colours, it draws in young and old. As the handle is turned, it reads familiar tunes from punched cardboard strips. A group of tiny wooden morris men dance, play and drink to entertain the crowds.

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5th May 2013 – sisters

The smallest, in the middle, holds an old man’s walking stick. At her big sisters’ instruction, she holds its heaviness out, wavily, in front of her. She screws her eyes closed, childishly tight. Her older sisters pretend to guide her … Continue reading

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