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September 11, 2007
Sticky images
Images that haunt you, images that stalk the neural pathways and lurk in the synaptic corridors of the mind. Images that you think you’ve forgotten. Then for no reason they spring to mind.
This is from Tiger Tim's Annual of 1923, it used to be my father’s.
I found the books, in a dusty box, under the deep shelves, beside the old Welsh dresser in the back of the studio [it wasn’t hard – I knew they were there]. Lots of memories came flooding back. Not least Webster the Dog eating the spine when he was no’but a puppy, grrrrr… the Little Tyke tried to hide in the bread bin – I soon found him too.
I used to thumb through these books endlessly, sitting up in bed resting them on the pillowy paisley eiderdown, looking at the illustrations mainly. I have to confess I never read the story of Susie and King Twinkle. In those days it was the pictures that fascinated me, they were so rich with detail.
Who knows what influence all the images we see as children have on us in later years. The lasting image I had of this illustration was a girl in a tutu sitting on a giant mushroom, umm, I think the wallpaper might be peeling in the synaptic corridors.
Posted by john at September 11, 2007 12:53 AM