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Vanessa
Ferry by Nigel A JAMES
There
are three sisters, and, the one who lives in Devon in England is a
patchwork artist, and, the beauty of her pictures lie in their
simplicity.
To
begin with, Vanessa chooses a piece of flowery material and
cuts it up into lots of different sized patches - and then -
so as to make a patchwork picture, she sews them all back
together again! And the result – as you can imagine -
looks amazingly like the original piece did before she cut
it up – which of course poses the question: why
bother?
But
bother she does because it is art – and art – as we all know -
has to be seen to be admired, and to be seen it has to be
framed - and this is the job of her husband Mick. And,
sometimes, his frames look even better than the pictures do
themselves! And that's life! But of course, the moment that
everyone loves is the hanging.
When
everyone's present, the picture is carried in from the garage where
Mick has just finished its framing. And then, amidst a
great feeling of excitement it is proudly hung on the
living room wall. And everyone claps, and everyone's happy. And then
something very unusual starts happening. The picture starts vanishing
away into nothing. And, this is the magic of the moment!
It
seems that the wall - with its almost identical flowery patterned
wallpaper - has swallowed the picture alive, and, all that is left
is yet another empty frame on the wall! Another invisible
artistic treasure on the wall of invisible treasures! Vannessa's
living room – the flowery Bermuda triangle of Devon. But, there's
good news, too! Once every summer, this picture eating
trap gives
up one or two of its
victims for an afternoon out at the vicarage! And,
this afternoon-out is a story that's different!
We'll
be saying hello to Vanessa again!
Vocabulary
amidst
– begleitet
von (dichterisch)
– sonst – unter/zwischen
another
– noch ein
admire
– bewundern
amazingly
– erstaunlicherweise
bother
– die Mühe
machen
frame
– (Verb) - frame/framed/framed – einrahmen
frame
– (noun) – Rahmen
gem
- Schatz
good
cheer – gute Laune
gives
up – hergibt
hung
- (from hang) – hang/hung/hung – aufgehängt
material
- Stoff
patchwork
artist -
patch
– Fleck
pattern
– Muster
pose
the question – pose/posed/posed – stell
die Frage
proudly
– mit Stolz
result
– Ergebnis
sew
– sew/sewed/sewed – nähen
that's
life – so ist das Leben
trap
– Falle
vanish
– vanish/vanished/vanished - verschwinden
vicarage
– Pfarrheim
victim
– Opfer
