Painting in sections

On Sunday I was struck by a painting, unless it was two paintings, that I saw in an exhibition. It was a perfectly competently painted heron and a rabbit hiding in the undergrowth — unsuccessfully, of course, otherwise the artist wouldn’t have known they were there, and he would just have painted the undergrowth. If I think about it, next time I’m there I will photograph it and show it to you. The unusual feature of this painting was that it was made of two separate halves, with the heron on one panel on the left and the rabbit on the other panel on the right. There was a gap of two inches or so between the two panels. That makes it a polyptych, but not a diptych, apparently, because the two halves of a diptych have to be joined together with a hinge, whereas the two panels of a polyptych can be separate.

Usually any sort of image that you see around you is in one piece. Pictures of a hamburger behind the counter in Macdonalds, for instance, are in one piece. They don't show the left half on the hamburger on one panel and the right half of the hamburger on the other panel. They don't even show the bun on one panel and the patty on the other panel.

I could only think of one kind of image that is commonly drawn on several — four, in this case — separate panels. I wondered whether it was possible to convert any painting that I know of into a four-panelled polyptych and if so, what the result would be.

Suddenly it dawned on me. Here is the result.

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5 May 2019. Today I visited the café where I saw the two-panel painting of the heron and the rabbit. I regret that the painting is no longer on show there.

Election 2019: On the doorstep

On 2 May 2019, there were local elections in England, one council by-election in Dundee, and various elections in Northern Ireland. Then on 23 May there were elections to the European Parliament.

This is where the story really starts, T☆ry supporters going out on the stump, banging on doors, have been attacked by enraged voters as soon as they mentioned the government’s shambolic un-attempts to leave the European Onion. (See this story in the Daily Mail, for example.) To counter this tendency, local T☆ry agents have advised candidates and their canvassers not to mention what has become known as “Brexit.”

So what are candidates going to say when a voter answers the door to them?

Here is my two pennyworth. How to avoid conflict on the doorstep, for T☆ry candidates.

Avoid mentioning, in alphabetical order, Brexit, care for the elderly, energy prices, the Health Service, homelessness, illiteracy, inequality, pensions, the railways, tax avoidance, unemployment, wages or wars abroad.

Anything else is all right.

Edited 26 May 2019.

Note: It is neither desirable nor necessary to attack a T☆ry candidate, or anyone else. This blog is opposed to violence. Just vote for someone that you think will govern the country better than the T☆ries have been governing it for the last ten years. It isn’t difficult.