SONG OF THE KITCHEN-TABLE LEAR

  
    Each a good egg or an empty shell

    What can these portraits silently tell
    Something of culture or civilization
    These wafer-thin waifs sans fertilization?
    Storm in an eggcup – Lear and his clown –
    One’s kept his Motley, one’s lost his crown.
    There’s drama revealed in all faces and shells
    That’s what this Breakfast double act tells.
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These eggshell self-portraits of Lear and the Fool were inspired by images of the Clown Egg Collection, which a friend recently sent me. The collection, which records every clown’s make-up on an eggshell, is owned by Clowns International and is on display in the Clowns Museum at Wookey Hole Caves near Wells in Somerset. These fragile artefacts are portraits in miniature of famous clowns.
4 thoughts on “SONG OF THE KITCHEN-TABLE LEAR”
  • dtstoner

    How eggs-traordinary!

  • dtstoner

    What shell I say?
    Merry Christmas from the Egg-Noggins.
    Eggs-cellent display but not what I eggs-pected.

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  • legesilo

    Did you heard what Rob Matts said about that?

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