Jigsaw Peace - Jigsaw puzzles - Capital Collections

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

39820

Title

Jigsaw Peace - Jigsaw puzzles

Description

The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.

'Jigsaw Peace'

'a fli ck of blue is not the sky.
a blade of gra ss? or silk ensleeve?
th ew orld is ren dered in
fragm entswh ich
slo w ly

sl owly
thr oughobserv ation (where's the dog's tail?)
coo peration (I'm collecting pieces of the hat)
andt rial
andt rial (is it the right piece?)
tri al and (ah... got it)
trial and
erorr
until finally (slightly, just slightly, disappointingly)
ab

strac
tion
resolves. '

By Lucy Harland

Image: The Beatles Jigsaw 1960s, Famous Five 1980s, Victory Jigsaw Puzzle 1960s, Postman Pat 1980s

Date

1960

Type

Toy

Location

Museum of Childhood

26 Children's Winters is a project that has challenged writers to respond creatively and emotionally to objects housed in the collection of the Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh. The writers were selected from 26 and they were allocated different groups of objects that related to childhood experience during the winter time, in the past and in the present. The written responses were in the form of a sestude - 62 words exactly, 26 in reflection. Those sestudes are presented here alongside the Museum objects.

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