Children's Imagination

My son and I took the Cremyll Ferry from Stonehouse in  Plymouth to Mt Edgecombe in Cornwall,just a stepping stone across the sea.It was a beautiful Spring day and we both felt we would like to go for a walk. The daffodils were in abundance, there were wild roses of every colour and the grass was lush and green.

As we sauntered along, we chatted, stopping to watch the ducks, stopping to talk to some friends we bumped into and just having a lovely time together.

While we were chatting he asked what it was I was doing........I explained that I wanted to do something to remember the Lockerbie Bombing, my friend Yvonne and her daughter Briony and those who were taken with her..... and that I was working on a Remembrance Art Piece to exhibit . I asked him if he had any ideas about how I could display the messages that I might receive from people......he said 'what about like the advent calendar we have at Christmas when we take a chocolate or a message out of them every day'. I thought that was a really good idea and that I could develop it some way.

I know its early days and I havent yet had any correspondence from anyone re memories........so I was thinking that as I would like to make it a 'Living Art Piece' that maybe if I dont get any response from anyone, that when I exhibit the piece I could ask that people leave a memory in a pocket. When the college exhibition is over then I have thought that I would gift it to Lockerbie......if its good enough and if they would like it.....that way when people visited they could interact with it. I like that idea so maybe thats what I should do.

I'm really glad I asked my son because children have such wonderful imaginations, and he has given me inspiriation. Thank You Dyls xxx