Saturday, February 8, 2020

Chalk man

The room had many soft boards. The big one at one end of the room seemed bigger due to the presence of a smaller soft board next to it. The smaller one was green in colour and the big one maroon. The wall between the two entrances to the room was painted black and used as a blackboard. Two soft boards occupied the space on either sides of the blackboard. As one stood facing the blackboard one observed that the soft board on the left was maroon and the one on right green. All the soft boards in the rooms had charts of various sizes pinned on to it. One chart had an images of the sun and cotton clouds on it. An A3 sheet had the drawing of a colourful pot. A large chart contained a number of sheets arranged in a tight grid each containing colourful patterns drawn on it. The maroon soft board to the left of the blackboard contained a black chart with many colourful round paper popsicles stuck on it. Below the chart, impressions of chalk made by a duster stood out like a sore thumb in the otherwise orderly room. On closer observation of the pattern made by the duster, an image emerge from it. It consisted of two legs at the bottom complete with a foot each, a vacant space above the impression of the two legs was left for one to imagine the presence of the body.  A head with a tall hat was placed above the imagined body.  Curves emanated  from the head and went round it. Another set of curves were seen around the legs.  The chalk man on the maroon soft board seemed to be in the middle of a ecstatic twirl.

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