My wife copied one of my postcard pictures (the station) to a friend of hers who is a journalist – writer and film-maker – as she visited by train from the South West just before the lock-down started. She commented that the picture would make a good jigsaw. I had not thought of this before but that might actually fit the sort of aesthetic I have been looking for and is another interesting example of how images of places can carry extra significance, this time acquiring an element of diversion and entertainment. I quite enjoy jigsaw puzzles from time to time so this might actually work. I have already found on a quick internet search a couple of companies that will turn photographs into puzzles. They are not at all expensive so I might just give one a go. I am quite amused by the prospect of including a jigsaw in a submission for formal assessment in due course: it would not be practical, I fear, to have the full set made into puzzles and unfortunately the assessors would not have enough time to be able to sit down and complete the puzzle! Nevertheless, I do not think it is too off-the-wall an idea.
I remember from when I was quite small that my grandparents had lots of things that had on them “postcard” views of places that they had been on holiday. The possibilities for portrayal of any locality are legion: decorative crockery, tea-towels, place mats and coasters, and more besides.
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