Kate's father's wheelbarrow, here is my grandfather's wheelbarrow.
He must have made it in the 1950's, and he painted it marroon which was his colour for everything he made.
I am interested in Kate's post about objects being 'the thing itself, just stuff' but am puzzled as to how she removes the stories from the artefacts.
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After the war my grandad bought a load of battleship grey paint - enough to see him through to the 1990's and his death. He painted everything including his house this colour - is your grandads maroon a cheap paint thing or an aethetic choice? I like the pictures from the farm but I can't help looking at them romantically. Do you think there is a conection between my thinking of stripping away context from an object and stripping away layered interpretations of the countryside
I think the Maroon paint was cheap as he was a Scot and hated waste.
I like the layered idea. Must get you and article on laminated identities in texts.
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