I hav'nt made this image, it's a still from the film 'Kes', I've only scanned it and put it through some Photoshop filters because I thought it went well with this poem I saw today (plus I'm being lazy)..
A Boy's Head
In it there is a space-ship
and a project
for doing away with piano lessons.
And there is
Noah's ark,
which shall be first.
And there is
an entirely new bird,
an entirely new hare,
and an entirely new bumble-bee.
There is a river
that flows upwards.
There is a multiplication table.
There is anti-matter.
And it just cannot be trimmed.
I believe
that only what cannot be trimmed
is a head.
There is much promise
in the circumstance
that so many people have heads.
Miroslav Holub
1963 (I think)
8 comments:
There's nothing that I enjoy more than manipulating images that aren't mine. I particularly enjoy what you've done with this one and the poem is fabulous...it still describes what's inside my head. I'm a little boy still or, as Peter Pan would say, "I don't wanna grow up, I'll never grow up, not me!"
The image looks great in larger size and it has a boy's head in it. I'm imagining all those things in the poem are behind his eyes. I had my head trimmed last night by a hairdresser. :)
Mick.. someone at work had a book of this poet's work and I wrote this one down for IF, I'd only call this a half-official entry really. Umtrimmed heads are very good yes!
Anon.. trimmed heads are also very good like yours.
He had a very good face for the part in the film. Hope you find it one day!
Kes Film cannot be found in local modern stores here ... maybe it is in the ancient film archives of the library ...
like mick, i too enjoy seeing images that are someone else's being manipulated by another. to me this proves that they 'live' beyond the creators concept. they have 'legs'.
great image and the words work well with the art.
I agree and thanks for the compliment! Still feel a bit of a cheat entering it for IF though, but hav'nt been arrested so far.
But you did not claim the image as your own so you really did not cheat.
big WOW's for both, the picture and the poem!
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