Apart from travellers and hobos, we all live in spaces. And when we live in a space, we make decisions about it - about how it will appear. Many of these decisions emanate from the sub-conscious and some are evolutionary - taking years to manifest themselves.
I guess that in places like The Hollywood Hills or Monaco or Surrey in England, some wealthy homeowners bring in interior designers to professionally style their private residences. Maybe these "homes" end up rather like pages from a Sunday magazine - more akin to luxury hotels than places of habitation. Nonetheless, even in such spaces, as time passes, the human presence will generally intrude and reveal itself .
I snapped the top picture in the main bathroom of the house where I stayed on Friday night. It belongs to My friends Pauline and Tony. She has lived there for thirty years. Every time I have been in that house over the past six years, those heads have been there, taking up bathroom floor-space.
I have never asked Pauline about them. Such a question might appear quite nosy. However, I appreciate their presence - gathered there like lost figures that could not secure admission to a museum - now trapped in an early Victorian house in Beverley - on a road that leads up to The Westwood and the racecourse.
Perhaps they have conversations in the middle of the night - comparing notes about the challenges of living without bodies... Talking Heads.
Is the head of John the Baptist there?
ReplyDeleteHerodias buried John's head in a dung heap. I thought everybody knew that!
DeleteGroan.
ReplyDeleteHappy to have given you a moment of entertainment Mr C.
DeleteI would say Pauline has had a number of questions about the heads, it's hardly the kind of thing people won't comment on.
ReplyDeleteI rather like them and I feel as though they are somehow appropriate for you to be acquainted with, given your love for Easter Island
We English are very reserved you know Kylie.
DeleteSome of you, maybe
DeleteI rather like them, though I hope they aren't watching me.
ReplyDeleteThey only watch when you are drying yourself after a shower.
Deletea bathroom seems like an odd place to keep them.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen such a thing before River.
DeleteThanks for the heads up about your friends bathroom residents.
ReplyDeleteBeverley or Bust!
DeleteGosh, Pauline is not from Surrey ìs she?
ReplyDeleteOh my giddy aunt! No she is not. She's from Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
DeleteThey are obviously get ahead people.
ReplyDeleteBoom! Boom! - as Basil Brush used to say.
DeleteIt's quite a striking collection, isn't it? Especially with that yellow one adding a dash of color. I couldn't imagine hiring a professional decorator. Seems like a good way to wind up with a characterless house.
ReplyDeleteThat seems to be what some people want.
DeleteI don't think I'd fancy that lot watching me on the toilet or in the bath.
ReplyDeleteYou could put little blindfolds on them.
DeleteWell, each to his, or her, own, as they say! The heads, though not particularly to my taste, do make a refreshing change from clothes basket and crocheted spare loo roll holder!
ReplyDeleteI like those crocheted loo roll cover that are effectively dolls in voluminous ballgowns. Very chic.
DeleteOr maybe they talk about the bathroom habits of those they watch. Who knows?
ReplyDeleteThey could certainly learn a lot about good personal hygiene from me.
DeleteI have what is kindly called an eclectic decorating style so I find them interesting.
ReplyDeleteYou would probably get on well with Pauline.
DeletePerhaps either Tony or Pauline were once sailors. American sailors anyway, refer to the bathroom on their ships as the "head."
ReplyDeletejust the sort of thing that I'd be tripping over in the dark.
ReplyDeleteGood job they are slightly tucked away in that corner.
DeleteYou seriously underestimate my ability to trip over things in the dark.
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