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Nothing should be read into the photo as Yuki's intention was one of having some fun but you must admit, contextually provocative for we sad artists. Interestingly, the police were there in force interviewing a man at the edge. (see photo no.2) The presence of a stepladder excited the imagination af several of us. What do you think it meant? Blog your thoughts. We'll be waiting.Anyone else with photographs, drawings or thoughts from the day ON THE EDGE, blog us.
I think the number of cops on the callout thought it was an episode from Police Rescue or Blue Heelers, where some old codger can't face change and wanted to jump. Nothing of the sort - just an old fella from a nursing home confused and thought he had to go on call with a ladder to fix a shelf by the swimming pool. The absence of any family/nursing home staff could mean that there were staff shortages at the "aged care facility" or that he lived on his own on the Gold Coast and family elsewhere. Or he could have thought the Japs were coming and grabed a ladder so he could get down the cliff and knock 'em off as they left their boats! You just never know what happens when you set out for a quiet picnic to draw something.
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I have a theory. The man, the cops, the ladder it all makes sense. An escape attempt was in progress here. This man had worked out that he, like all the rest of us, was stranded and he had decided to do something about it. He had taken his ladder to the boundary between the present moment and all of the past moments and all of the future moments and he was about to climb out and run around in time as fancy took him - and then the cops turned up. The question really is who told the cops and why such drastic measures to prevent the escape were taken? I mean four cops against one little old man. There is no way he was going to be allowed to escape the present moment. I also think he was doomed to fail anyway. That ladder was just too small for the job.
ReplyDeleteThe photo doesn't show enough detail to come to any proper conclusions but there is a question mark over the real identity of those cops that raises another question. Who are the custodians of time and how do we pick them out in the crowd so we can avoid detection when we try our own escape? The only only clue we have is the heavy handed use of force on this occasion to prevent the escape. If we are to be prevented from having freedom from now with that much force it must be really worth having.
Bill