THE BEAUTY OF SPEED

«We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath ... a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.»

 

 

 

 

Scene no 46: Racing, roaring, motor cars (Unknown manufacturer, tin toy models) on the road bend (Bush model building item, Road Curve, ΗΟ/ΤΤ 1103).

The text: The fourth statement from the Manifesto of Futurism, by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.  

BLOOD’S CRIMSON

  Hell grant soon we hear again the swords clash!

  And the shrill neighs of destriers in battle rejoicing,

  Spiked breast to spiked breast opposing!

  Better one hour’s stour than a year’s peace

  With fat boards, bawds, wine and frail music!

  Bah! there’s no wine like the blood’s crimson!

 

Scene no 45: Knights in ambush (Britains toys, Mini Set 1082, 1:42 scale mini-scenic models).

The verses: From "Sestina: Altaforte" by Ezra Pound.

THE GLORIOUS BRAZIL

«Maybe the real tragedy of Sarria was that the sport had reached its aesthetic zenith. 

Never again would an international side arrive at a World Cup playing a brand of football that was so intuitive , so carefree, so exhilarating and so beautiful.»

 

                  

                                                

Scene no 44: From the football match that took place between Italy and Brazil at Estadio Sarria, Barcelona on 5 July 1982 (Italy 3 - 2 Brazil). Accurate representation of the phase of the third goal of Italy. Paolo Rossi strikes the ball past Waldir Peres for his hat-trick (Subbuteo Table Soccer Heavyweight C100 .00 scale team Ref. 166 Italy and Ref. 50 Brazil. Also C109M Playing Pitch Cloth, C110 Television Tower, C127 ‘Continental’ Match Ball, and part of C108 Plastic Fence Surround).

The text: From “1982 BRAZIL The Glorious Failure” by Stuart Horsfield.    

WOLF AND STAG

«Winter is coming»

«Ours is the fury»

«In the name of Robert of the House Baratheon, the First of his Name, King of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm, by the word of Eddard of the House Stark, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, I do sentence you to die.»

 

                                                                                                          

 

Scene no 43: The Iron Throne (HBO official licensed product sculpted by Gentle Giant Studios, Dark Horse Deluxe) and the Weirwood Tree (Snow globe, HBO official licensed product sculpted by Gentle Giant Studios, Dark Horse Deluxe, number 0065 of 1,200). On one side the Direwolf of the House Stark (Bookend, modeled after the direwolf statues that guard the crypts of Winderfell), and on the other the crowned Stag of the House Baratheon (Board game accessory).

The text: From Α Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin.                                           

AFRICA

«The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were—No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it—this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity—like yours—the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you—you so remote from the night of first ages—could comprehend.»

                                                     

 

 

                                                      

Scene no 42: African big game hunting. Black hunters (Elastolin and Preiser Elastolin 7cm figures) and running Elephant (Elastolin soft plastic animals).

The text: From The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad.

THE TYRANNY OF CONSCIENCE

 

The puppet is carved from the heart, but the conscience is carved by the mind. 

And Pinocchio will become a real boy, if he proves himself brave, truthful and unselfish...

                                                      

Scene no 41: The wooden puppet Pinocchio and his conscience Jiminy Cricket. (Enesco, Jim Shore, Disney Traditions, #4005220 Carved From The Heart and #4005219 Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide).                              

ANIMA

 

«The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc...»

 

 

                                                    

                                     

Scene no 40: The Man shows the Boy the nature of the Woman (Preiser HO 10439 Nude Bathers &  Noch HO 15958 Nude models, HO 15959 Ladies of the Night).

The text: From TWO ESSAYS IN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, by Carl Jung.