Category Archives: Wiltshire

It appears that the brand spanking new Gila collage series may contain an animation in the middle of it after all. The old Gila 07 collage is transforming into a Gila 06 and a Gila 07, with the old Gila 01 instead being relegated to a pre-Gila test sort of collage. I think. Anyway here’s an early look at what seems to be turning out as Gila 06 and Gila 07… these are just tests still, mind you.

Edna and I had, just last night, watched a British Comedy episode featuring a red door (and the mysterious thing behind it). Right after this I discovered a new photo of Ironmonger Lane where the 2 cyan colored doors in the original Bryan Robert Marshall camera shot have instead been painting the opposite color of red. In the caption for his Ironmonger Lane photo taken in November 2007, Marshall states that the, “narrow alley is one of several that run at right-angles away from the main road, the A4 old coaching route. The turquoise door at the far end is the European Shiatsu School’s premises.” Apparently the next year, the European Shiatsu School sold out to The Old Barn Yoga Center, who subsequently painted the cyan doors red. It’s easy to tell these are the same doors because one of the photos included in the Yoga Center’s site is taken from essentially the same angle down Ironmonger Lane. These two photos are the basis for the projected animation in the middle of Gila.

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1/29/13 update: I believe these 2 collages are now finished, and make up the 6th (left) and 10th (right) work of the Gila series.

Hucka D.:

What to do? Go to Marlborough and be A. Mann or chicken out and not go. That’s the story of the 2 collages in a way.

bb:

But there’s something deeper. The cyan colored doors “magically” changing to the opposite color of red… seeing the Red Door episode of The IT Crowd the same night as finding this red door photo… The alley is blocked in Gila 06 by the black horse with rider. The white horse is no problem in the 10th, for it’s way up in the air, and also Patty/Selma has moved off to one side to allow passage to the now red doors. A paradox, Hucka D. A conundrum.

Hucka D.:

Even though…

bb:

Even though half of, let’s see, that would be [ blue clad] Selma, is seen in 10, it equates to seeing the whole of the more diminutive [red clad] Patty in 06. This is because of the shortened perspective for the added background photo with the red doors in comparison to the Marshall shot of the cyan doors — the same, exact doors again but coming later in time (post-2007).

The white horse in the sky of 10 is like Marlborough’s own white horse, diminutive itself in comparison to most Wiltshire white horses.

… *is* the basic end of Gila, the new collage series, then it’s a strange one for sure. Part of the 10×10 but not part as well. The 11th [tier]. No animation at either the beginning or the end. Instead the 5th and 6th[ middle] collages are basic opposites, and the 6th is probably the best collage of the bunch overall, and the only one that matches up with the best of the 10×10. The 1st and 10th, Hucka D., appear to be the same “base” collage, or “Big Head” I suppose. That’s never happened before, although there’s a good chance that the 10th might morph into an animation with the 1st and become different from it. Hucka D.? Anyhoot, it’s also set essentially in Wiltshire, unlike any of the other 10×10 series — although like the Baker Bloch in England exhibit which it has more in common with in this and some other ways.

Hucka D.:

Like what?

bb:

Simpler collages I suppose. But they do flow and tell a story like the 10×10 collages, or the series of the 10×10. There’s also 10 of ’em, in essence. This is the Gila series.

Hucka D.:

Yes it is. With “Monsters” [6th collage] in the middle. The best one as you put it. Probably true. Like “Gila Monsters”, then.

bb:

I could even polish all of ’em up on Monday. Tuesday at the latest.

Hucka D.:

So you reached a dead end in Marlborough in the narrowest of alleys — Ironmonger. Then Ringo — sorry, *Ingor* should you the correct way out of Marlborough through a less narrow alley leading away from main street. Forgot the name.

bb:

Me too.

Hucka D.:

This leads back to Marge. “Head Inside”. New Pietmond of collage 5[ “Marge Eclipsed”], is found to be wanting for a proper center, leading to Ironmonger Lane and the depth of Marlborough added to New Pietmond instead. Didn’t work. Why? This is the error of the sister, or limitation.

bb:

Patty and Selma were chain smokers, Hucka D. If they aged, which they don’t[ on the show], then they would probably die before sister Marge who leads a healthier life.

So Ironmonger Lane is the way of Patty and Selma, which is a less successful route or leads to a dead end.

Hucka D.:

They are A Marlborough Mann. You can’t be absorbed into Marlborough. You have to have a way out.

bb:

Or I just have to wait until I *get* there to explore further. I’m at a dead end as far as online photos and GoogleEarth can take me.

Hucka D.:

Yes.

bb:

New Pietmond will probably go away in about a week and a half or two weeks, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

There may be more for Second Life, however. You can go into things; explore around in Second Life, and can’t in GoogleEarth.

bb:

I’m not even sure the Gila series is finished.

Hucka D.:

We must continue[ however]. So you find the correct way to Marge and Head Inside, ending the series, or probably ending it. The correct lane, which is another Marlborough Lane but less narrow[ than Ironmonger]. Ingor shows the way[ in the 8th collage, “Marge Refound’]. Ingor is a freemason.

Marty:

It was all this stuff we couldn’t share with the world because we were initiated and we were sworn to secrecy. But it was top notch stuff, like Bacon was Shakespeare and he coded the King James Bible. So we put a lot of that in the Sgt. Pepper cover, but only toward the end, and with help from [ others]. We had a chance to code the secrets into the album and we said, what the hey. Simple as that. But the secrets are remarkable.

bb:

Thanks Marty. But why couldn’t you tell me this before.

Marty:

You had to find Marge. You had to find Ingor. Lemon. (pause)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain

bb:

Interesting Hucka D… Marty. Queen Anne was great friends with the Duchess of Marlborough, of all people. And Queen Anne’s Pond is where Ingor shows, er, me, the way back to Marge to end the Gila series. We found the heads or the relationship between the heads Patty, Selma and Marge. At Queen Anne’s Pond.

Hucka D.:

Actually it’s Glory Ann Pond. Different. But good you found reference to the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough.

http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getcom.php?id=251

There was a quarry at the end of Mill Lane on the edge of Monkton Down, and along Hackpen Hill and opposite Winterbourne Monkton is ‘Glory Ann Pond,’ an excavation for brick earth used in brick making but no longer shown on modern maps….

To the east of Monkton Down is an area known as Templar Bottom, where the Knights Templar had a preceptory in the 12th and 13th centuries, just east of Glory Ann Pond.

http://www.ancientquest.com/templarsites/engl-sw/wiltshire/004-index-rockley.html

“Less than a mile to the west Top Temple are two hilltop ponds known by the unlikely name of ‘Glory Ann’. There has been much speculation as to the origin of this name. One theory is that the Templar motto ‘Non nobis Domine, no nobis; sed nomini Tuo da gloriam’ provided the name from its final ‘gloriam’.