Christmas cards

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

39837

Title

Christmas Cards: From somewhere in-between time and reality.

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.

'Christmas Cards: From somewhere in-between time and reality.'

'Worthingtons, 1843.
One dislikes "Christmas Cards" they shan't become popular.

Endure Christmas.

Obligatory regards.

E. Scrooge.

Dear Santa, 2015.

It isn't fair that you get lists but no cards.

So Merry Christmas Santa!!

Lilly aged 5.

Dear Christmas Cards, 1843-2015

without you,

Christmas would become day bereft of warmth in words and in colour.

Thus, my kindest past, present, and future regards.

Niall Moorjani.'

By Niall Moorjani

Image: Selection of Christmas cards 1900 - 2010

Date

1900

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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