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Tuesday 28 July 2020

MARTIN SPRINGETT - News From The Potting Shed - The Parade of Possibilities - V12



Here is the twelfth of Martin Springett's ideas for artwork for the next album, 'Strange Kingdom'.

Martin says:

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What she is pointing at looks uncomfortably like Coronavirus, but is in fact, a seed like being called a Cobble Spot. Another escapee image from The Gardening Club graphic novel, this is a distant relative of Lady Emily Stirling (guardian of singing plants) who resides conveniently in another dimension. Cobble Spots are air borne seeds, who choose a host to alight on, then grow into a plant that will resemble the host in various intriguing ways. In our dimension this is rather like dog owners who resemble their dogs, in looks or temperament. (Does anyone resemble their cats?) The Spots don't need a garden, just a musical host who can sing to them three times a day, preferably a mixed diet of classical, popular and avant-garde. These are high expectations indeed, and yet, many a host who until the time the spot appeared, had been tone deaf, became endowed with extraordinary musical powers. This is one of the wonders of the, you know, Universe. See - Cobble Spots - Homunculus Or Philanthropist? by James Grabknee, U Of Pee Culiar Press, 1969. Also - I Was A Talentless Rube Until I Was Spotted, by Cynthia Staghorn, Neat Heap Publishers, 1907."

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