batting words around
myself and tawona had a great day yesterday playing with words and revisiting ideas developed on this project . I was reminded of ideas/ words earlier on in the blog which have now resurfaced in the final stages of the work.
we had an interesting conversation about the beaver fur hat and Tawona was telling me of a phrase in Zimbabue ‘filling his hat’ which means a good job has been done . ‘he has filled his hat.’
we also looked again at the title of each blog post
- burlers spoolers and scourers
- seeing red
- red things
- from uniforms to tennis balls
- mending
- cloth for fur
- whatever they traded they made their own
- red flannel pieces
- batting to and fro
- swingball
- from cloth to grass
- stroud water
- red strips
- fuzz
- talking with your hands
- code red
- top hat
- currency
- words and things
- red routes of trade
- love=nothing
- raising the nap
- punctuating a collection
- high vis
- top hats and tennis balls
- stop and go
- red card
- red coat
- fullstop
- totem tennis
- lingering cobwebs
- red flannel pieces
- batting words around
- bouncing red
- bouncing embroidered words
- it takes two
- trophy hat
- painting the town red
- playing a straight bat
- stop and reflect
- ball of threads
- bounce
- bat bat bat
- colouring red
- dotting
- batting words around
April 15th, 2010 at 11:09 am
was a really inspiring discussion of ideas, and great to revisit all the places we’ve been before.
the expression of ‘filling your hat’ is derived from berry/fruit pickers using their hat as a basket.
the top hat is very intersting as it is also related to the idea of taxes - stamp duty in particular. I watched a documentary recently where historians talked about stamp duty and the relationship with top hats got me interested to find out a bit more. Introduced the late 15th century as a way of paying for the ongoing war with France, stamp duty was targeted at what were seen as luxury items, which included the top hat. individual items had to be stamped to show the authorities that tax had been paid on an item, hence the phrase ’stamp duty’