found on the footpath
Tag: found object
found negatives
A somewhat obtuse play, found in a second-hand children’s history textbook. I am tentatively attributing this to one Marie Delacy (whose name is inscribed in the textbook’s cover).
Things I found and hoarded this month. I’m not sure what’s going on with me.
1. Packaging for a Luxury Short Wig the colour of Maud’s “Blue Surf” ice-cream, featuring an image of an uncomfortable woman being devoured by the all-consuming Void.
2. Cryptic appointment card for a hospital.
3. Handwritten list of conservatively-named show dogs (?) and their owners.
4. Envelope for a guitar string discarded in a bar by a bluegrass covers-band duo.
5. Concise message from a greetings card.
6. A receipt for diesel, dropped on the roof by a man that came to pick a fight with my satellite dish, lodged in which was
7. a dead bird.
8. This is a pen drawing of mine that I don’t remember making.
I feel like I would know myself better if I understood why I find this picture so hilarious.
(Scanned chalk/charcoal packaging.)
Found negative.
(A creature disappearing into a burrow.)
I pilfered this from inside an old writing desk that was on display in an auction house showroom. I am a thief.
Found a lovely, horrible, mouldy second-hand book, dating from at least the twenties, which turned out to be a panegyrical biography of Irish revolutionary and poet, Thomas Davis.
I love the strange marks and annotations all over these pages, like the febrile scribblings of a lunatic trying to decipher some imaginary code. And I don’t know why, for example, the word “opinion” was apparently not in the owner’s vocabulary but “temperance” posed no difficulties. A terrifying spectre of oppressive Catholic dogma glimpsed through the veil of time? Or a meaningless quirk of literacy, just a rumple in the fabric of one weirdo’s personal lexicon, who knows.
Poet-revolutionary is one of those occupations that seem to have fallen by the wayside. Like buccaneer, or haberdasher.
Found negative.
Found negative.
Chair
Found negative, sloppily photographed.