Monday, 9 September 2013

The Cheshire Cat, a Zoetrope and Henry Moore


I've just been looking through my notes from my holiday. I made notes throughout, of things I wanted to remember, and places I'd been, things I've seen.

One such note reminded me that when I was on the plane, heading into Ascension Island, I looked out the window and saw the moon. Just the dark sky and the moon. The moon was a crescent and reminded me of the smile of the Cheshire Cat. It was lovely looking out at the moon, thinking of a fictional, but mystical, being smiling down on me. Not least because up at Croft (otherwise known as Crofts-on-Tees), near were I'm from, there is a little church where Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, home of the Cheshire Cat, where Lewis Carroll's parents are buried and where the carvings inside the church apparently inspired the creation of the Cheshire Cat.

 
The moon, looking like it did flying to Ascension Island.





The good old Cheshire Cat.


I like little coincidences and connections like that.


Another note reminded me of when I was getting ready to re-board the plane for the continuing flight on to the UK. As I looked into the propeller I was reminded very strongly of a Zoetrope.



 
An olde-time Zoetrope, courtesy of Google.

 


 On the way up north we went past a truck with what seemed to be a sculpture on the back. Me and D discussed how it looked like Henry Moore sculpture…A quick Google at a later date confirmed our thoughts. I’m not sure exactly which sculpture it was, but it was definitely a Henry Moore.


Not quite sure which Moore piece it was, but it
looked very similar to this...all curves and aged green.

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