I had a long list of things that needed doing this weekend – did I do them? Well, some. Does it matter? In the great scheme of things, probably not. My last blog entry was about hill figures, or more specifically about Homer Simpson being painted on the grass next to the Cerne Abbas Giant. And then I got to thinking, because not far from where I live, someone has painted a very large cross on the hillside, right about the town. It had a lot of approval in the local press. Or put it another way, one journalist wrote quite a few column inches about it. Personally I haven’t heard much comment either way, other than wondering how on earth anyone scaled the mountainside carrying a bucket of white paint/lime and a brush. And why the rain hasn’t washed it off yet. (It’s been up there well over a year now.)
But then I started wondering…. Always supposing I was agile enough to climb up the mountain, what else could I paint up there? Well, a pentacle is an obvious choice – though tricky to paint accurately on such a big scale, and the same goes for a Star of David. A hammer and sickle, maybe? A giant game of noughts and crosses? Another Cerne Abbas Giant?
The mind boggles – what would you paint?
‘Seeking the Green’ by Tylluan Penry, published soon by Capall Bann. For more info – watch this space!
