Secret Roll of Paper
On our last visit to the collection I found this roll of paper in a metal tube.
You could see little bits of handwriting on the paper, but it remained impossible to extract and required someone with he correct tools and gentle coaxing to unroll it.
Not being able to read it does make it even more intrigueing, and had inspired me to make paper rolls with lists on ..which you can’t quite read…well you almost can..
Some of which will be shopping lists.
Horse Carrots.
Milk
Hazel, that list is so surreal that I’ve used part of it as a line in the Angels of Anarchy Exquisite Corpse poem activity: http://www.angelsofanarchy.org
platypus
Bead in a box
pamphlet for a coal bunker.
Perhaps the hidden paper is a secret love note to Mr. Batho!
One imagines Marys shopping lists would be interesting –
Fork handles
Spoons
Tea bags
One legged antelope
Sausages
String