I trust everyone has been following the wonderful
anonymous sculptor @_freetofly_ on Twitter?!
If you haven’t, all is not lost. You can catch up with
what’s been happening here.
The theme of the new work is ‘Literacy as Freedom’ and
more than 500 Twitterers (?!) have been having loads of fun selecting favourite books to
stock a magical library and talking about what libraries mean to us.
Now, we’ve to tweet @_freetofly_ with statements about
what ‘Literacy as Freedom’ means to us personally, which will be used as the
tags on the forthcoming sculptures. Very exciting!
Our lovely sculptor is still anonymous. She has, nevertheless,
revealed some tiny clues about herself and imaginative souls will undoubtedly
be creating a whole character round these.
Although we
completely respect her desire for anonymity, Sheena felt that it was all very
well writing poems to celebrate the individual sculptures, but rather remiss
not to screive a poem as a tribute to _@freetofly_ - their extremely talented, witty and erudite creator.
I hope we won't get skelped!
Needs
Every
library should have a resident cat
(So sleek
and so silent, so silky, so wise)
Named Old
Jellylorum or Coricopat,
Or like
Alice’s Cheshire…a smile and two eyes.
All
artists and writers should have as their perks
The
finest of coffee - Gold Blend! - in a mug
And a
bagful of malted milk biscuits to munch
As they
laugh on the bus making others cry ‘Ugh!
You can
tell she’s creative, she speaks to thin air
And the
bees in her bonnet have hatched in her hair!’
By
buildings, in gardens, near shopping parades
Is that
rustling paper… or wind in the trees?
The prose
may be merry, or evil as spades
A serious
reader keeps turning the leaves.
Oh, the
freedom to step into literature’s land!
The only
things needed, a book and your mind
The words
light the touchpaper - find Samarkand
Leave the
everyday streets and their sorrows behind!
© Sheena Blackhall,
2013
