Collage 07 analysis 01

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So we’re just going to go ahead and move forward into an analysis of Collage 07, completed just yesterday and then polished up this morning. I’m trying to keep up with analysis this time, unlike with the last series from the first of this year (Embarras). And I’m doing it a bit different from the completed analysis of the Sam Parr series from last Fall, Hucka D., in that I seem to be interpreting as I go along this time, instead of waiting until the series is over.

Hucka D.:

Good to switch up. So here we’re in Midgetville. The collage, a 4 part animation it appears, is called “Midgetville” [itself]. And the base photo comes from a location called just that in New Jersey. Here’s a link LINK.

http://weirdnj.com/tag/midgetville/

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And that’s the source of the photo I used in my “Midgetville”. And I’ve used another of those photos in an Embarras series collage, to go back to that [soon enough]. That one was called “Fathers”, I believe. (checks) Yes.

Back to the Midgetville article:

In 1913 circus mogul Alfred T. Ringling purchased nearly 1000 acres of land in this section of Jefferson Township (then known as Petersburg) on which to build an estate and winter home for his performers (many of whom were little people) and his animals. Nestled between the Green Pond and Bowling Green Mountains, the estate proper consisted of 100 acres, with a stately 26-room stone mansion overlooking the grounds, barns and cobblestone elephant houses.

Today Ringling Manor is the St. Stanislaus Friary, a monastery for the Capuchin Fathers. When Weird NJ went in search of the Jefferson Midgetville we stopped in to ask the fathers [my eph] if they could give us any information which might shed some light on the fabled land we sought. Though the friars were gracious enough to give us a tour or the old mansion, they said they knew nothing of any midget colonies located nearby.

Is it merely a coincidence that a cluster of extremely small cottages is located so close to the estate where a circus that employed many little people performers once wintered? Or is it possible that Alfred T. Ringling had these homes custom built to make his tinier attractions more comfortable?

But now, Hucka D., we know another little person who came to this general area, this time an actor in the movie “The Station Agent”. This is Fin McBride, who inherited a tiny train station in Newfoundland, just north of Green Pond (as the Ringling Bros. mansion is to its west).

Here are he and his *newfound* friends at the woman’s house actually on the shores of Green Pond[ while I have it located].

They are rocking to “Yellow Submarine”, which was similarly destined to reach and then exist in the mythical Sea of Green of the song. A happy ending. The flip side, Eleanor Rigby, is the negative beginning, in contrast. Like…

Hucka D.:

… Like the 2 parts of “Beware…”, negative and then positive. Good.

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Hucka D.:

Aren’t we here?

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