I'm thinking of the country show, the displays of fruit and veges, great mosiacs of grains, sorghum heads, corn cobs, sunflowers etc that farmers would display with pride (out west where I grew up), all the home-grown produce on show, presenting your best pikelets or floral arrangements in a saucer (to win a certificate), young men with their beloved prize bulls, gaudy poultry in all its fluffy spendour . . .
And the sideshows, sticky, loud, tacky, expensive, thrilling, and gone, a mysterious nomadic subculture as you put so well Wanda.
I might go out the the Finch Hatton Show next Sunday and collect some rubbish to use for collage . . I don't finish work till its over but that could be just fine, sifting through the remains of the show.
I am thinking of putting a perspex disc into each panel that can be spun around by a knob on the front, and radiating images branching out from its centre. Still very much draft form but its a start, what do you think? I could leave some unfinished around the outer edges if anyone else would like to contribute to them.
Trace
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