The dream...
never forget in here last night.
To be continued.
Now, this is hard to communicate simply. It needs a book. But I have about 5 others in a queue maybe one day I shall get to.
After that summer of 2016 I began to privately adopt for myself my far preferred name of Ralph.
I do things partially symbolically. And the rural worker yeoman in me - one third of the time. Needed to have the rightful name. But there is more....
'Art'.... I explored artists too. And what is extraordinary is how artists of rural places painted a dream; a false picture of a theme park. -Almost all incomers from cities pretending they were always some sweet homespun person, when the reality is that many will have been utter Thatcherite red in tooth and claw selfish marketeers so they could afford their extremely expensive rural getaway
That is their right, and their business - even if most find they cannot make good business selling the theme park though they try...my oh my do they try....it is rather trying...
The "institution" in question....
well they cannot ;leave behind the bottle of peroxide or hairdresser habit, never mind get their nails.....
But that is for the Miss Oh Jenny types who point the finger with the cracked nails....
Me i can see mutton dressed as lamb from the other end of the high street...
and lament, not for me, for them...
So sevenish years ago i started on my roamings to speak with people on the hill. That was the plan...
As Ralph.
What is spoken of on the hills usually is more 'real' and they would get my adage "what is said on the hill stays on the hill.."
And then we had three and a half more years of Imperial measures .... and bring back our wonky carrots.
Never mind what a glorious start to a new era March 2020.
Too much, when nothing actually happened in seven years.
All i know is what we do not see is often more important than what we do. On one person's Facebook wall i did not see any 'news'.
And in the pictures below one does not see anyone else........helping.
And if I can i need to weave that into actual real art about a reality in a real region. in fact although i may mainly roam one particular region i expect it is the same in other similar regions....which make up the majority of this isle.
Four
or five times in the intervening seven years i have had jobs in the most
glorious sublime paradise places where it would be very useful to have
company, for cash, who may at least help holding up a post that needs
concreting in. But i know the reality. I may well be an effete creep who so dislikes football and other manly things and cars, and machines, pornography and things men may talk about, and this prefer the company of the fairer sex, but i have a splendid scientific mind. All science says women, who officially have 90% of the bodily strength of a mere man, also benefit from healthy outdoor activity never mind it rather benefiting the 'mental health'....
But can one find just one who may for cash come and do a lovely days work outdoors, in one or other true paradise.... a little company and occasional bit of much needed other pair of hands....
And this, never mind not having the time to salvage all reusable materials for economic reasons, all sorts of as[pects or rural life, ended. The era ended. It is over....
Just like that other era in 2016.
But what amuses me is how the so called 'artists' are so terrified of this 'truth' they can never even refer ...
so i knew some years ago, that i have a role. A job. A duty. To paint the real picture even if I am better at weaving things into a form of rappish poetry.
But my form of 'rap' - better to say just 'riffing' in the creative 'zone' has as canvas in the backdrop all of culture from
Ivry...it must be Ivry! doing the Bruch in G...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TepIFIGc5Yo&ab_channel=JaschaHorenstein-Topic
to a bit o cheerful Joy....which always makes me think of the marriage breaker that lovely Annik La Sprout....
My quarry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glQ6NLQCHYo&ab_channel=RalphRural
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKghvy6Jh8c&ab_channel=RalphRural
I sit and watch for hours the lambs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6STyEmdW5s8&ab_channel=RalphRural
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Z9TRXzE7o&ab_channel=RalphRural
the tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_gSoz2QCsU&ab_channel=RalphRural
reusing staples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVbyFqYlLn0&ab_channel=RalphRural
The valley around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg00rIAZKaM&ab_channel=RalphRural
cuckoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrKvJGctaRc&ab_channel=RalphRural
at ;last.....
my new hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVE_aEzK7vo&ab_channel=RalphRural
top of hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVkhQAMLXHE&ab_channel=RalphRural