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“Rescue Ship”
“Beemen”
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bb:
Hucka D., let’s talk about “Beemen”.
Hucka D.:
Let’s talk about both. Then let’s talk about me, The Bee.
bb:
Okay.
Hucka D.:
Tired, aren’t you.
bb:
Exhausted, apparently.
Hucka D.:
We’ll there’s no excuse[ for working]. Have you got your peepers open?
bb;
Guess so.
Hucka D.:
I’ll begin, then. You can snooze a bit when I’m talking if you wish.
bb:
Wish that were possible!
Hucka D.:
It can be. It probably is. Beemen is an extension of “Rescue Ship” coming immediately before it. What is the ship? It appears to be the Pieland Second Lyfe island a bit out in the ocean. Are you asleep?
bb:
No.
Hucka D.:
… out in the ocean with the cat-turtle. The cat-turtle is related to the Green Turtle of Little Whitehead, which has now moved through the time/space portal to Monhegan Island, Maine. This is the Little Whitehead portal. Some art has moved to the location as well — by a group called Little Whitehead. This includes the floating, apparently dead red and blue fellow, and also the group of people staring at the far cliff. That far cliff is Whitehead; the body floats off Little Whitehead. The red and blue man oppositions the Green Turtle on the rocks to the left. The red and blue man didn’t make it to Little Whitehead, really, even though he was created by Little Whitehead. The red and blue fellow is like the red and blue robots surrounding Seven Stones just beside Green Turtle here — we’re still on “Rescue Ship”.
bb:
The red and blue robots can’t make a proper, true animation with each other, as I’ve theorized about before. They oppose each other instead, butt heads and so forth.
Hucka D.:
They are not a true Allen Knob. This is a past war between Whitehead Crossing and NORRIS. Who triumphed? Who ever triumphs in a war? Soon civilizations will fall anyway, whether victors or not. Think of the Anglo-Saxons.
bb (looking):
4 Sticks Dude’s cane points to the top of the rocks; it’s positioned on the rocks, I suppose. And he stands on a branch projecting out from the tree that forms the largest Little Whitehead bridge in Whitehead Crossing.
Hucka D.:
The only true bridge[ now].
bb:
But now the bridge — in this collage — leads to Maine and its fairy laden Monhegan Island. This is the portal you speak of.
Hucka D.:
This is the portal.
bb:
Green Turtle seems to be a pivot between realities.
Hucka D.:
Yes!
bb:
It appears in Little Whitehead, obviously. And it also appears or can appear on Little Whitehead in Maine, on this island.
Hucka D.:
Absolutely. Actually isn’t too hard to do.
bb:
Then in “Beeman,” the following collage, I originally had a giant turtle peering over the rock at the 2 beemen. This represents Green Turtle, which is a rock directly behind the rock pictured in the collage, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Is that the legendary Edward Stone? At last?
bb:
Unsure. But anyway I decided the turtle didn’t fit into the collage, as I kept adding in lego works originally found in “2989” a couple of weeks ago. Or maybe it was just a couple of days back that I created it. So many collages in so short a time (!).
Hucka D.:
54 and counting. You’ll reach 61. The magic number. Then your work will be done.
(to be continued)
Filed under collages 2d, Frank Park, Maine, MAPS, Whitehead Crossing
“We have… 03
“Hucka D., this collage just gets deeper and deeper potentially. First off, the middle of the collage seems to create an animation, since I can’t decide whether to ultimately keep the Green Man and Painting Woman w/ easel within. That’s the first odd thing. But then today, this morning, decided that this middle can be overlapped with the 4 Sticks phenomenon of Maryland/Pennsylvania. If so, the collage acts as a window into GNIRPS, um, a portal. Let me insert the little overlap I came up with. The original discussion of the 4 Sticks MD/PA material is here.
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/whitehead-x-ing-notes/
Then I did some editing, reduced the overall picture to 75 percent, and overlapped it in the most logical way I could find with “Rock, His Story.”
Then I recreated the 4 Sticks in a clean picture.
A clue for doing this, or a cue I suppose, was that Russell, the child in Up, uses Kevin as stilts in the middle portion of the collage. It was a small, logical jump to incorporating Stiltz, Pennsylvania/Maryland, since I’d already assoc. that town with stilts — up and down sticks as it were. But the cool thing is that you can align the central line, with the upper part at *Sticks* (Pennsylvania), with the central stick of the collage, the one Rock emphasizes by climbing up it, and also, now, acts as a symbol of the Green Lego Man’s spinal chord, it appears. Roller at the bottom then also becomes a stick, but a large one, more commonly called a log, which, because of its breadth, can often *roll*. Roller = green lined log at the bottom of “Rock, His Story”. Hucka D.? Hmm, maybe not awake yet. Anyhoot, then Lineboro is to the left to complete the 4 compass directions. As Kevin is equated with Boss Moss, since both donate one eye to a composite being, then the angular, similarly sized Freakie peaking out from behind the tree to the left would represents his double and opposite, as we’ve already spoken about before. This is Lineboro.
If we simply reverse the collage [and toggle back and forth], more interesting things happen.
The pivot point of the 4 Sticks insert becomes not the center of the lines, but Sticks, Pennsylvania at the top. It waggles around this stable point. The 4 Sticks dude revolving around himself is overlapped with the actual 4 Sticks region of Whitehead X-ing to the right in the original. Dorothy finds an obvious double in Wythe’s Christina, Baker b. coming out of the rocketship overlaps Baker Bloch on the bottle — direct hit there.
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Hucka D. (now studying this information as well):
The colorful Kevin bird seems to double for the likewise colorful Contraption behind it. I think it’s a comment on the latter — former to latter. Kevin is a unique, exotic bird. The world at large does not even believe such a bird exists. Yet Charles Muntz has devoted his life to prove otherwise, in his vanity. He wishes to capture Kevin to show the world that he’s not a fraud. Kevin is the Contraption. (pause) Kevin is freaky like Boss Moss, then. 2 Freaks; a composite one freak, each donating an eye. Eye eye. Boss Moss freed from his box existence represents Kevin in the wild, his home, and not captive like Muntz would desire. He’s a Tall Cool One, so another Lead Zeppelin, Robert Plant Variant reference. Nice. Like Big Log, which will come later[ in a later carrcass, Hucka D. probably means here]. Boxed Boss Moss (and by assoc., a captive Kevin) stands for slavery, like in the South below the Mason-Dixon Line in the antebellum times. Opposite of freedom.
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“[Elton John’s] Philadelphia Freedom, Hucka D., must represent freedom of the African-American peoples. *This* collage will be in GNIRPS.”
Hucka D.:
Has to be[ now].
bb:
Rock climbing up the stick is like slaves climbing north to freedom. A struggle, sometime Herculean, but ultimately worth it. Climb up!
Hucka D.:
Rock straddles the line. Elton John in Philadelphia Freedom mode assists. Can I be of assistance today?
bb:
4 Sticks dude somehow manipulating the colorful contraption beside Elton probably represents Muntz again and entrapment/slavery. 4 Sticks plays in Carrcass-3 as Kevin escapes Muntz and his dogs, lead by a Black Dog.
(to be continued?)
Filed under Allen Knob, collages 2d, Frank Park, Lead Zeppelin, MAPS, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Whitehead Crossing
“We have… 02
“Dorothy is surrounded by manifestations of the 4 Sticks dude, Hucka D. They appear to revolve around her. This is 4 sticks, because each dude has a single cane or stick. Walking stick, like was in one of the Jasper collages.
Hucka D.:
Several. Thank you for waking me up at such an early hour.
bb:
Well you’re welcome. You always seem to want to be a part of these interpretation posts.
Hucka D.:
I do. But thanks again.
bb:
Right. My feeling I had last night after reviewing what we’d said about the collage [“Rock, His Story”] so far is that Dorothy is cursed somehow — surrounded by a curse. In the primary or original Oz story she also crash lands[ in her aunt and uncle’s farmhouse] in a foreign world. I’ve made that assoc. before. So Rock is her and her is Rock. I wonder if she is already at 4 Sticks, waiting on Rock.
Hucka D.:
She’s not in this story. She’s just a stand in for Rock.
bb:
But[ on the other hand], we have The Emerald as perhaps a final destination, or at least it is in the framework of this collage. The Emerald is front and center. Dorothy and her new friends seeked the Emerald City. The green lined log at the bottom of the collage may stand in for the Yellow Brick Road. They would have quote unquote reassuring green thoughts[ of the Emerald City and gifts to be received there] while journeying down that sometimes dangerous road. Safety and an endpoint was ahead.
Hucka D.:
You mean the big green dude. Well, he *can* remove his head, obviously, and live to tell the tale. So that’s like Brainard from the Wizard of Oz.
bb:
But he’s not called Brainard in the book.
Hucka D.:
I’d check before saying that.
bb:
I don’t have to check, Hucka D. I made the character Brainard up based on the Wizard of Oz and also a map name. Remember?
Hucka D.:
No. [But I’ll take your word for it for now]. This is Oz the Terrible if not Brainard the Terrible, then. They get there and they encounter this enormous, ferocious head instead of the kindly wizard they seeked. And then they’re sent away without receiving any gifts atall. They’re told to kill a powerful witch, a seemingly impossible task. If we weren’t watching a movie, we’d say balderdash and turn away to avoid seeing the carnage.
bb:
Truth, Hucka D. But fairy tales don’t work that way. Usually. (pause to look at collage) Rock’s climbing on the green dude’s head. What’s that mean?
Hucka D.:
He’s scaling the problem. He has superhuman powers within the confines of *Gene Fade’s* movie. “Fade to Moss”, I believe. So Rock crash lands in *that* movie just like Dorothy does in the original Oz film. He walks past Seal Stone and Grey Rock. They’re bickering, like Newton and Jasper sometimes do in your virtual villages.
bb:
Interesting new take on the subject (!)
Hucka D.:
Grey Rock just wants to be left alone. But Seal Stone is there pestering him most of the time. They can become one and move about. They’ve been all over Whitehead Crossing together. Alone they are sedentary. As such they’re pictured like a grey seal, often with a ball or something manifesting about the nose area, like in “Sky Diamond” [another recent Whitehead Crossing collage].
bb:
So in the movie, Rock encounters an actual, grey seal.
Hucka D.:
Yes, according to the script (Hucka D. is heard rustling papers here), on page 51 there is an encounter with a grey seal soon after landing. It is trying to cross Green Stream, but a branch is in its way. It doesn’t want to jump in the water and wade across — apparently (more paper rustling) — checking back a page — the seal doesn’t like water. Strange seal! And it says here that 4 Sticks — that’s his name in the script as well — he’s on the opposite side laughing at the seal all the time. He’s, um, apparently put a curse on the seal so that it can’t cross Green Stream in that direction; has to remain in Whitehead Crossing proper. But 4 Sticks can cross the bridge and visit The Fairy any time he wishes. The Fairy does not like Grey Seal.
bb:
Is the Fairy Elton John?
Hucka D.:
He wears red ruby slippers[ like John does on the cover of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road]. Apparently John has given up on Whitehead Crossing. He steps backwards across the Green Stream, never to return. We last see him walking backwards up Greene Knob to the east.
bb:
Are you sure you’re still reading the script and not off the map now?
Hucka D.:
No. I’m improvising[ true enough].
bb:
Well maybe we should get back to the script.
Hucka D.:
There is no script. It’s just me rustling some old newspaper. Sound effects. Effective in Nowhereland[ where we talk in].
bb:
I believed you!
Hucka D.:
Do you want me to continue[ anyway]?
bb:
Eh. Sure.
Hucka D.:
… steps backwards across the creek, never to return. He keeps walking backwards up to the top of neighboring Greene Knob to the east. He build as hut on top, but he still can only walk backwards. You found his hutch.
bb:
Yeah I guess I did. Go on sir…
Hucka D.:
The Fairy obviously abandoned his home on the opposite side of Green Stream, but he still stayed there sometime. Instead he went elsewhere. He went to Doug. That’s another stream to the west. There he met additional fairies. For there were fairies in Whitehead Crossing already. And toy avatars of course. And bees. And Mossmen — but that’s kind of a toy.
bb:
Are they really, though?
Hucka D.:
We better return to the collage[ however much I’m enjoying this].
bb:
Well (looks again), the green being is The Emerald is the Emerald City of Oz. An ultimate destination, seemingly. Once you pass Green Turtle you know you’re there. Edward Stone.
Hucka D.:
In the center of the collage we have 3 figures. We have the green guy, with the branch Rock hands from representing his spine or backbone. Rock may then be a chiropractor adjusting the spine. This is your spine.
bb:
I suppose it could be.
Hucka D.:
That’s your Emerald City right now. To find a back specialist and allow him to help you.
bb:
Suppose.
Hucka D.:
Rock is that specialist. That’s his occupation.
bb:
Hmm. What about the strange looking artist. She’s acquired an eye and a beak, like a bird-woman now. But it’s a composite figure. Eye from 12 Oz Mouse returns, as he was in the Dock Tarn related collages (coming just before the Whitehead Crossing related collage under discussion).
Hucka D.:
She’s painting a picture so that she can move into it, as before (“Painter>Painting” collage).
The painting is also your collage or collages, and your Falmouth Gallery is positioned just below the canvas to reinforce that. You enter the collage just as she enters her painting. And your gallery is also pictured on that earlier collage (above). This is Little Whitehead.
bb:
That’s a whole ‘nother chunk of information, Hucka D. The Little Whitehead, Maine to Little Whitehead, NC bridge.
Hucka D.:
It’s another bridge. We know it can be a time bridge now. Can 4 Sticks cross[ and so on]?
bb:
I’m not sure.
Hucka D.:
Can 4 Sticks cross the Big Log and get out of his namesake berg?
bb:
Something to think about.
Hucka D.:
Maybe the *curse* also keeps him confined to 4 Sticks. He cannot cross Whitehead Crossing in that direction. He must remain south of the stream.
bb:
Interesting new development, Hucka D.[ if so].
Hucka D.:
*But*, if someone enters 4 Sticks improperly, across that Big Log or perhaps another bridge or log, then *they* are trapped. Black Dog. So it’s interesting we have Kevin in the new collage, from Up. Kevin is the one cursed, unable to reach True Home. He is hauled back to the Charles Muntz lair in the zeppelin. Big Balloon. The zeppelin approximates Carl’s house.
bb:
Interesting. Let me take a look at him[ in the collage]. One of his eyes subs for one of Boss Moss’ eyes. The two are one. In an earlier Falmouth collage…
… one of Kevin’s eyes similarly substitutes for an eye of Howl’s Moving Castle. We associated the 2 together at the time because both are main characters, as it were, from single movie carrcasses, Hucka D. One is about Up, and one is about Howl’s Moving Castle, the movie named for the object or character. Because it is a living thing in the film. Both are desired objects in the film.
Hucka D.:
Kevin is being used *as stilts* in the film, in the collage. You better end.
bb:
Thank you.
(to be continued)
Filed under collages 2d, Frank Park, Maine, MAPS, Whitehead Crossing
“We have…
… several new collages to talk about, Hucka D. But I think the process is *finally* winding down. Must spend time on other things.
Hucka D.:
Yeah (laughs).
bb:
Woods *definitely* today. Missed them yesterday.
Hucka D.:
To the collages[ then]!
bb:
Well, “Rock, His Story” is obviously a type of culminating collage, taking and extending pictorial elements from the past number of collages before it. Central to the whole story is Whitehead Crossing’s The Emerald, front and center here.
The Emerald is again represented by Green Lego Man, as it was in “2989” from several days back now. So many collages!
Hucka D.:
Yes, don’t get overwhelmed. Take a deep breath and then proceed.
bb:
Bits and pieces of other Whitehead photos find their way in here. But the base photos come from The Emerald, and both have our hero Rock in them, who is a toy avatar. Rock is the Rambo toy pictured not once or twice but three times within. 3 Rocks, 3 separate photos of the same toy avatar. Since it is so much about him — his story — let’s just look at the pictorial elements in order and spell it out. First the landing…
Hucka D.:
That’s perhaps the most important photo added to the two base ones. Let’s look at this more in depth. Show the reader or readers how this was done.
bb:
Okay, first the base photo…
… then the first photo added to make it a proper collage. Same original dimensions, but reduced 50 percent all around for the purposes of the collage.
Hucka D.:
No, as I understand it was reduced…
bb:
… yes, reduced 50 percent already. You are correct, Hucka D. But the original photo inside the camera was the same as the first, dimension-wise. I just made this one smaller because the resolution wasn’t that good — that’s how it entered the blog in the first place. Both of these pics were put in the same blog post originally, coming from, let’s see, probably early May 2012. I bet The Emerald is already showing[ this year] Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Correct!
bb:
Here’s the smaller photo, then…
… and this is how they fit together to manifest the newest collage process proper…
So there’s your 2 Rocks to begin, and The Emerald as the bridging, landscape element. This is centered upon The Emerald, once again. It revolves around it.
Hucka D.:
What was next?
bb:
There were some tests with the 4 Sticks dude. Eventually a corridor was made along the right side of the smaller base photo, the width of the box that Boss Moss comes in, as already seen in “Unboxed”, an animation from several days ago in 2 parts. So although Rock doesn’t appear in former collages, this Boss Moss does. In the animation he is boxed and then unboxed. Here are the 2 parts[ again]…
In the final version of “Rock, His Story”, we have both boxed and unboxed versions remaining, the unboxed version directly above the boxed version. The boxed version defines the limits of another Whitehead landscape photo added pretty early in the process, and this would be from the percieved center of the 4 Sticks region, not yet appearing in the Falmouth series. Specifically, it’s of 5 bottles set up at this center, the germ of a toy happening that hasn’t taken place yet. My idea is that more bottles from Hucka D.’s stash of 55 or so — also appearing a bit later in the collage at the bottom — would be used to enlarge the germ or seed process.
Hucka D.:
But this hasn’t taken place yet. Yet in the *collage* we’re kind of doing this already. You are, I mean.
bb:
Yes… suppose. So not all 5 bottles are produced. This is the 3rd base photo I’m talking about. It’s reversed or turned left to right as it is introduced into the collage. The 4 Sticks guy was removed at this time, but soon reappears later on the left in not 1 but 4 connected manifestations, that turn around like a wheel. One could assume that this is about the 4 Sticks area as well.
Hucka D. (reinforcing):
This is about 4 Sticks. The core of it, I mean.
bb:
Yeah. It’s about the landing of Rock, I believe, in Whitehead Crossing and then moving through 4 Sticks, as we’ll put it, to reach The Emerald and Edward Stone. His crashed rocket ship from the southern edge of Whitehead Crossing is added next, along with the bottles at the bottom. Here are the 3 involved photos:
5 bottles marking the center of 4 Sticks.
Rock’s crashed rocket ship.
Hucka Doobie’s 55 or so bottles, to the east of 4 Sticks and to the south of The Emerald/Edward Stone.
And then this green lined log was added at a certain point to point to Rock hanging on the branch in the collage’s center, still. He remains there throughout, although in the last stages Green Man stands directly behind him, representing The Emerald himself[ as stated].
Hucka D.:
Green like The Emerald, okay.
bb:
So what happens is that you have that corridor defined to the right of the smaller base photo within the larger base photo. This is defined by the Boss Moss box, width-wise. The boxed Boss Moss probably represents Rock boxed up, as it were, in his rocket ship, traveling in from still unknown dimensions.
Hucka D. (correcting):
You know where he came from. Virginia.
bb:
Okay, so let’s run with that theory, then. That Rock came from the center of the Synching Creek Designated Mystery Area, the SCDMA.
Hucka D.:
It’s truth (!)
bb:
But Boss Moss also represents The Emerald itself — he’s very green like The Emerald is very green — same green. So the later added Green Lego Man represents The Emerald but so does this Boss Moss. And I should add that Boss Moss has appeared in one other collage of Falmouth, and that’s the big diptych involving Stonethwaite, where you turn all the way around in the center of the village. We’ve already discussed that big collage here [LINK].
Hucka D.:
Yes, this is another big collage, then, and Boss Moss and his even freakier double, partially hiding behind a tree here, return. They are a frame for the Stonethwaite collage, and they act the same for The Emerald in, what was the name of it?
bb:
“Rock, His Story”.
Hucka D.:
And the big Stonethwaite Collage?
bb:
I can’t remember. I’ll have to check.
Hucka D.:
Hurry it up, then.
bb (slightly irritated):
Thanks.
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bb (returning):
Well, it doesn’t have a name yet, Hucka D. Let’s just call it Collage 31/32. We’re up to 52 now (!)
Hucka D.:
(!)
bb:
But, like you said, it’s all winding down.
Hucka D.:
Sad. But you gotsta get out in those woods.
bb:
This is the last, big hurrah. This Collage 52.
Hucka D. (hurrying it up):
Rock lands, get’s out of his rocket ship. But now we have you, *baker*, also exiting the ship. This is the same you as seen in the collage before this…
bb:
“Contraption”, yes.
Hucka D.:
Thank you. And the contraption returns as well. It’s in the background of The Emerald. Originally, I remember you had 4 Sticks operating or seeming to turn it here. Now it stands alone. What is it?
bb:
A question to be asking! It is half mine, half the alien’s… I think.
Hucka D.:
No, this is what I think. I believe it is what the aliens are building in the woods, and why they need that metal from Rust Spot. The contraption probably is another ship. You have your toy happenings, and Lion’s Roar is pictured in… what was it again. Oh, I remember: “Contraption”. Duh. So that’s kind of your culminating toy happening so far, moving beyond the earlier Billfork[ event]. And also Whitehead Crossing hasn’t really extended itself in that direction yet. You’ve guessed something else. Do you want to say it?
bb:
About the aliens?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
I’ve theorized that the not only “own” or call Bill Mountain their territory but the whole of Frank Park. And Herman Park and only that is mine. Now it just so happens that the two legitimate toy happenings so far have taken place in Herman Park — the Billfork and the Lion’s Roar you mentioned. In “Contraption”, my Lion’s Roar is directly juxtaposed with their Rust Spot, which is forbidden fruit, as I know now. Yes, I know!
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
And the colorful contraption sits on top of the Rust Spot stuff — I won’t call it junk because it would be valuable to me[ for a toy event], and it seems to be valuable to the aliens [for a parallel type toy event]. The aliens could be artists.
Hucka D.:
Could be. They like your collages. They helped you with them.
bb:
I don’t doubt it.
Hucka D.:
They are sending you a message about Frank Park and Whitehead Crossing in particular.
bb:
Don’t build there?
Hucka D.:
Umm, not exactly.
bb:
What then?
Hucka D.:
Let’s go back to the base photos[ of “Rock, His Story”]. Rock crash lands on the southern end of Whitehead Crossing. You have his rocket ship pictured to the, left. Rock is outside it. But you know this is just the actor T-Bonz playing rock in the movie Gene Fade is making, “Fade to Moss” I believe is the working title.
bb:
I believe so.
Hucka D.:
He’s requested that Fade produce the funds for a paint job for the old rocket. Fade has resisted.
bb:
But why am *I* coming out of this rocket.
Hucka D.:
You aren’t. T-Bonz is positioning a cut-out of you inside the rocket[ as you’ve also guessed]. You are a rocket man as well, but only as a collage element. Baker Bloch exits too, but he’s just stuff of a collage as well. That’s of course your primary alter ego. I wish I had an alter ego.
bb:
I believe Hucka Doobie is your alter ego, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
No, unfortunately, Hucka D., me, and Hucka Doobie, also me, are the same. You are not the same as Baker Bloch. Not yet.
bb:
Not yet?
Hucka D.:
No.
bb:
Will I be?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
So we have to move faster. The 4 Sticks guy appears below the rocket in the new collage, spinning around in 4 manifestations. As he is loaded down with sticks on his back, but also has a stick in front to act as a cane, this is the 4 sticks again. 4 sticks — 4 Stick Guys. Dorothy is in the middle of them. Dorothy apppears in “Unboxed” with Boss Moss and also Ray Davies, who also makes a reappearance here to the far right. His figure overlaps one of the 4 Sticks bottles, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Remember your story about Ray and the bottles of Lion’s Roar? That applies here[ LINK].
bb:
Should we end?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
(to be continued)
Filed under collages 2d, Frank Park, Whitehead Crossing
Collage Tests
“Rock, His Story”
“TILE Worship”
Filed under collages 2d, Frank Park, Herman Park, Tile Creek, Whitehead Crossing, Yards Mountain
“Contraption” 03
“The last directly Whitehead Crossing related collage presently is “Jasper 04 Revisited.”
Hucka D.:
Here we have a rock from a neighboring valley — the blog friendly NORRIS, the stream I was briefly married to several years back — placed in the center of Whitehead Crossing. It has a cross, or an “x” if you wish on it. This “x” was not present during my marriage but added later. Is it to mark the rock as a tombstone? Or is it to define it as a symbol of Christianity, perhaps by a follower of that religion? I think the former now.
bb:
I believe I do too, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
So it’s perched on Orange Hill. This is the Jasper 04 Collage referred to in the title. Most of its elements return in the new work.
bb:
But, as I’m looking at it, everything is turned around in the new collage. Facing left instead of right and visa versa. Everything.
Hucka D.:
Baker and dog — dingo — are perched atop a high rock in both. The rock, again, in Jasper 04 Revisited is the one from Norris. Pull up a pic.
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/whitehead-x-ing-04-norris/
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/whitehead-x-ing-04-norris/img_0089smaller/
*Is* it a tombstone?
bb:
I don’t think so.
Hucka D.:
You sure?
bb:
Not totally sure, no. It *is* in the ground firmly, that’s for sure.
Hucka D.:
But at any rate, this is the crossroads, or marks the crossroads. “X” marks the spot, and so forth and so on, etc.
bb:
Guitar weilding Mouse is now playing in the middle of Whitehead Stream, Hucka D. Playing the the Von Trapp children that may represent rocks or perhaps white-ish rocks within the stream. Mouse himself may be an island in the stream. In fact, all of them are *on* an [ unnamed] island just below Orange Hill. Orange Hill is the cliff above them, with the Norris rock added to the top now to make it more similar in height or at least picture-wise to the rock cliff of Jasper 04. The island, then, becomes important. *Is* it Mouse Island?
Hucka D.:
A [definite] possibility. Good.
bb:
About the only thing that doesn’t reappear from Jasper 04 in the new work is the Gill’s Pier sign, Hucka. That’s Gill’s Pier, Michigan, where in 2052, according to the legend, Pierre will reappear and all carrcasses will be freed of their restrictive chains.
Hucka D.:
A great event it will be. Get prepared[ even now].
bb:
Mouse will be free to play guitar to the Sound of Music children. He can teach them the ABC’s of Do Re Mi.
Hucka D.:
The fox is opposite the dingo. This is death opposed to life. Valley to peak. Bottom to top. The dingo with its diamond tail is perched atop the cliff, like the diamond was pivoted atop a hemlock tree in the former collage just examined.
bb:
Way back in 2009 we examined Jasper 04, Hucka.
I remember the triangle. The Triangle. There’s not really the same kind of equal triangle in the repurposed work.
Hucka D.:
Nah.
bb;
But all the pictorial elements return, however.
Hucka D.:
Yeah. Better end.
bb:
Thank you.
Filed under collages 2d, Frank Park, Michigan, Whitehead Crossing
“Contraption” 02
“Big Log is not technically the entrance to 4 Sticks, Hucka D. There’s a middle region of sorts between 4 Sticks and Edward’s Stone.”
Hucka D.:
Whitehead Crossing is a complex region with several nationalities involved. We will not figure this out today. Or tomorrow or the next day. Years down the road. All’s you can do now is trace some of the history through collage, photos and writing. But, especially now, collage. In this day and time.
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(16 hrs later):
Hucka D.:
We better return to “2989”. So this is 61 x 49. Your crossroads. Someone came into Whitehead Crossing and had to make a decision at that crossroads. Crossing. Who was it?
bb:
Lead Zeppelin?
Hucka D.:
Well…
bb:
Guy Lombardo? (hehe)
Hucka D.:
A town is constructed. Perhaps a virtual town or one that doesn’t damage the environment, or The Emerald, etc. Pooh and friends made it. Falmouth Castle or Gallery is at the Crossroads, perhaps perched on Orange Hill. Castle Dundee may be one and the same[ with it]. Falmouth Castle is in “2989” Pooh attempts to cover it with an umbrella, with only no to partial success. He stares at the Korean Channel “E”, the flip or schwa side. This is the side of Karoz, The Limited. Don’t you think Green Man in the collage could be Karoz, baker b.?
bb:
Could be. I’ve thought of that myself, as you might have guessed.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Karoz would look much like that without his blue-green jumper, all moss colored and such. What is the bee? Is it me?
bb:
Unsure, Hucka. But very interesting that your bee home use to be just north of Whitehead Crossing.
Hucka D.:
Right on the eastern edge. Entrance to Mammoth Cave. Sealed by Aunt Joe and Uncle Zoe. We’ll get to them soon[ enough].
bb:
Can’t wait. Winnie the Pooh pulls the same wagon with the honey we see him with in the next collage as well, when he’s actually crossing Big Log into 4 Sticks. That’s at the heart of the Crossing, or Crossroads.
Hucka D.:
You must study that “E”. Whitehead Crossing is at the top of that “E”. Korean Channel[ once more].
bb:
I will. Here’s the following collage, then. Pooh misses 4 Sticks, who shows up a little late, it seems.
Hucka D.:
4 Sticks was always late. Just to be ornery.
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bb:
So the painter becomes part of the painting in the Falmouth collage before “2989”, and now she reappears in “2989”. The Green Man pulling off his head also stares at a duplicate canvas and easel.
Hucka D.:
We better move on to “Sky Diamond”. 4 Sticks returns, but now not in 4 Sticks but instead in south Whitehead Crossing, on a rock beside Green Stream as it passes into the top of the Korean Channel. A log in front of him forms a bridge across this stream, and a Grey Seal passes over it, but seems stuck for now, unable to get behind a projecting branch of the log. This is obviously our Gray Rock/Seal Stone combo again, similarly out of place like 4 Sticks. In a photo insert, we have the rock known as the Welcome Mat, only *slightly* displaced from its position more to the left in the base photo. Then in the sky we have yet another Whitehead Crossing rock, this time Diamond Rock from near 4 Sticks. Again displaced… obviously, since it’s way up in the air, or perhaps perched atop one of the two twinned dead hemlocks in the collage. Perched in this manner, the 2 dead trees become the same height — equalized. This is somewhat like the pillars of Boaz and Jachin fronting the Temple of Solomon. It’s also the entrance to the post-Korean Channel beyond, following Green Stream upstream. From the other direction, it acts as the entrance to this channel, and, more short term, the part of the stream called The Straightaway that runs from Rock Island to Big Island. Small cars line one side of The Straightaway, heading toward the trees. Will they get there? So what does all *this* mean, baker b.? Oh, I forgot to mention that Baker Bloch is beside both the displaced, actual rocks, subtracting the more symbolic Grey Seal.
bb:
The diamond in the air reminds me of Lennon’s Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Drug reference?
Hucka D.:
Could be. From the future. Grey Seal is attempting to cross Green Stream to get to the fairy home on the other side, a place you revisited yourself last week. He’s quite near, in the collage, where Rock’s rocket crashed as well. Grey Seal’s nose points to 4 Sticks. Is that the actual name of the dude pictured here?
bb:
Is it?
Hucka D.:
Um.
bb:
Let’s say it is, then.
Hucka D.:
Rocks are spirits. They can move about — mobilize. Grey Seal obviously. But the others as well. Welcome Mat moves not a lot but some. Diamond Rock can even fly, apparently. They gather at Green Stream, at the tip top of the Korean Channel, for a reason. What is it?
bb:
Again, I don’t know and I’d ask you back the same question.
Hucka D.:
We know, just like the case with your virtual Whitehead Crossing, or VWX Town, that the tail wags the dog. The tail in this case contains a diamond, or a diamond shaped patch to be more accurate. It’s Newton’s dog. Diamond. Named for the patch. And it’s a dingo as well.
bb:
Interesting. And this is like[ VWX Town’s] Westside.
Hucka D.:
I remember that. Cardboard Derek Jones., or C. D. Jones as he started calling himself. Where are we on that?
bb:
Unsure, Hucka D. Westside became the tail that wagged VWX Town because The Diagonal was found to fall upon it. Heterocera’s Diagonal, spanning the entire virtual continent.
Hucka D.:
All the Whitehead Crossing rocks gather at the stream. You better find out why.
bb:
Let’s move to “Ghost Sticks”, a truly scary picture to me, Hucka.
Hucka D.:
Yes! The 2 rocks become the same with the 2 gravestones, head and foot. As you have guessed also, Grey Rock and Seal Stone are Pluto and Charon or Sharon. And as such they are Wazob and Sharon, macro and micro. Diffuse and condensed. Like the grave stones orbit each other in “Fairy Sticks”, so do Pluto and Sharon. You better figure out why.
bb:
Sticks float ghostly around the composite rocks. They seem to glow. And then we have the “head”? Head stone’s head. It’s not really a head but a picture of a fungus from a 4 Sticks photograph.
Hucka D.:
The tail wags the dog. Sharon wags Pluto and also Wazob. Sunklands wagged Jeogeot. You better rent in Busby.
bb:
Think so?
Hucka D.:
Yes (!) Just do it.
bb:
The Grey Seal here is very different from the cartoon-ish Second Lyfe grey seal in the last collage, Hucka.
Hucka D.:
Two sides, two aspects. Whitehead Crossing needs that stream to draw itself out of itself. The stream unites. Little Whitehead and Whitehead and No Title Spring have differences with each other otherwise. The top of the Korean Channel is a gathering spot for Whitehead entities. The stream talks[ as you know]. Another collage[ of it] might help.
(to be continued)
Filed under collages 2d, Frank Park, Whitehead Crossing
“Contraption”
“Contraption”
“So I made this new collage while we were interpreting “2989”, Hucka D. And it contains the lone lego creation left *out* of the latter, substituted by the green man removing his head in front of the second easel.”
Hucka D.:
It’s the first, but go ahead.
bb:
The Green Man mirrors The Emerald (green grass top of land between Little Whitehead and Whitehead Streams)…
Hucka D.:
Go ahead and show the base photograph [for “2989”].
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bb:
Well, I can’t find it Hucka D. A mystery in itself?
Hucka D.:
The Green Man represents The Emerald, the grassy patch atop the plateau between Whitehead and Little Whitehead. How about Rock?
bb:
Oh… yeah. Here’s The Emerald. Full bloom.
Hucka D.:
That’s looking from the opposite direction as [the base photo for] “2989”. Now this gap in the collage where you can see The Emerald is interesting, because you first had The Contraption there, per the overall paste, then you removed The Contraption so you could see The Emerald better in this gap, and then you put a miniature version of your Falmouth Gallery structure there, removed that, and then put the Maine painter, removed her, then inserted the Green Man, who had already appeared in several Stonethwaite collages, the last one — “Cover Up” I believe — related directly to the green algae of an English Lake District tarn.
bb:
Tarn of Leaves, yes.
Hucka D.:
So it was logical to include the man here as well to represent The Emerald. This is his ultimate destination, actually. He *is* The Emerald now.
bb:
Is it Edwardston?
Hucka D.:
Could be. Anyway, that’s the story of the gap[ in “2989”] and why The Contraption isn’t there. That’s the history.
the referred to “gap”
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“Green Man is again accompanied by Gray Man, Hucka D. Just like in “Forgotten Green” and “Cover Up”, the 2 other places he appears in the Falmouth collage series so far. Gray is lack of color. But of course there’s also Gray Rock nearby with its topping Seal Stone.
Hucka D.:
Two things placed one on top of the other, like the Green Man’s head and body or torso.
bb:
Back to “2989”… The picture represents the crossroads, and Whitehead Crossing. But through another recent collage, we understand that The Crossroads is at Big Log, perhaps marked by nearby Orange Hill. In the collage I speak of — “Jasper 04 Revisited” — a rock shaped like a tombstone with an etched in cross is placed atop this hill. It appears just below the middle of Big Log, where Pooh left his honey for 4 Sticks guy in another, smaller collage.
Hucka D.:
That collage [will be discussed next], so go ahead and put up a pic.
bb:
That’s part 2 of the 2 part animation.
Hucka D.:
Why does Pooh leave this gift for 4 Sticks? He knocks but no one is home in the village. The Pooh gift sits atop a prominent hump of the log. (pause) The number 2989 appears below Pooh’s wagon with the honey. As this animation collage comes directly after the collage called “2989” with this same wagon appearing, among many other lego built objects, we know this is a continuation of some sort. But also keep in mind if you will that the Big Log collage here was created *last* year — it’s really the first Whitehead Crossing collage, then. Big Log is the entrance to 4 Sticks. 4 Sticks does not rule Edward’s Stone or The Emerald or Little Whitehead. That’s off limits.
bb:
How come?
Hucka D.:
We, the bees, had something to do with it. Originally, we were set up in a hole nearby — where the spout is now. The rocks of the spring there now cover the hole for protection. We suspect Uncle Zoe and Aunt Joe were involved[ again].
bb:
So your people were originally set up right next to Little Whitehead. Quite fascinating.
Hucka D.:
Indeed. The Emerald was off limits for building, but a special kind of structure — atomic building block — was created to safely build there. Kind of like Karoz[ for Gene Fade].
bb:
It was a kind of virtual reality.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Now look at “2989” in this new light, with this new knowledge.
bb:
Pooh, rejected by 4 Sticks, must have come to The Emerald to make his new home.
Hucka D.:
He provided the honey to our bees.
(to be continued)
Filed under Bill Mountain, Byng, collages 2d, Frank Park, Herman Park, Whitehead Crossing
“I don’t…” 03
“The statuette is the same as the person in the grave. So let’s look at what that means.”
The inscription on the back pillar reads: “An offering which the king gives to Osiris, Lord of Life, that he may give a voice offering, consisting of bread, beer, oxen and fowl for the Ka-spirit of’. As is known for other statues of this date and type, the man’s name – Nebsenu(?) – is inscribed on the front of the statue’s base. He bears what Alan Gardiner called as “obscure” title: Hry (n) tm. The distribution of the inscriptions suggests that the statuette was prefabricated with the standard offering formula on the back pillar and that the man’s name was added later to the base.
bb:
You’re not going to be able to solve this tonight.
Hucka D.:
*You’re* not[ going to be able to solve this tonight].
bb:
I’ll never know who is in that grave[ either].
Hucka D.:
Oh you’ll know. Do you want to know?
bb:
Not sure.
Hucka D.:
It is a Question Mark with a Capital Q. Beside it is little Wilcockson… identified. This means the whole is Dogpatch or Marble Falls, where Marbles Fall. Dogpatch. There’s a *Diamond Rock* in Whitehead Crossing as well. This is the diamond in the tail of the dog. Tail… foot. The tail wags the dog… the foot pivots the head. See?
bb:
Yeah, kind of Hucka D. I have a cat problem. Hold on.
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“Let’s go to the next Whitehead X-ing related collage, which is “2989”. Another coded mystery (!). We are presented with an image from the crossroads where bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul, Hucka D.”
Hucka D. (chuckling):
Sole.
bb:
This is suppose to be in Rosedale, Mississippi. But some say it’s Clarksdale, instead.
Hucka D.:
Crossroads is Crossings. Whitehead. In Da Woods. But also Highway 61 crossing Highway 49.
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/so-forth-big-log/
bb:
Hucka D., that Winnie the Pooh lego set picture still comes up near the top of a hit list for subject “2989”. Nifty! Original link here.
http://www.peeron.com/inv/theme/LEGO/DUPLO/Winnie_the_Pooh
It’s the largest Winnie the Pooh lego set. Like a city in itself. Whitehead Crossing style.
Hucka D.:
Correct. You can build one[ now].
bb:
TILE.
Hucka D.:
Yes!
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“The painter has become a part of the painting.”
Filed under collages 2d, Frank Park, Whitehead Crossing
Sunklands 