For Mary... she who makes AND ices cakes
Mary Plain has been making lovely cakes.. and icing them - and by sheer coincidence so has the Ultimate Consumer. Now, I know that I have been making poor UC the subject of my posts on rather too many occasions for his liking - but tonight will be the last for a while, and so I will end with a tour de force, a REAL show stopper. An image that Anthony Browne would be proud of...
First, the context:
My Grandmother's 85th birthday is on Thursday and she is partial to a nice piece of fruit cake with marzipan and icing. SO I make the cake and UC gets to use gadgets to ice it.
Now what I want you to notice are:
- His rugged good looks
- The wording on his Tshirt - any guesses. Clue: evidence of significant running achievement
- Half a dishwasher 'tab' on the side - thrifty - but always prepared to invest in gadgetry on any scale
- His lovely physiotherapist's hands - strong and sensitive - yougetme?
- The fact that he was willing to Ice a cake because I am crap at anything arty at all and would have further trashed our already trashed kitchen.
But even more subtle - have you noticed where the gaze of the lens takes you?
YES, straight to a bottle of Mr Muscle nestled in the background between the bread bin and the knife holder. Now, how's that for subtext?
I am not sure about the empty levitating kitchen roll holder - a mystery for another day perhaps.
3 Comments:
Nice piece of semiotic analysis Simply Clare.
My cake is crap compared to that and dare not post photo.
Thanks for this, though it is a scary picture as I am not sure I can live up to these high standards. I think the teeshirt says Marathon and I claim my free turkey baster..
He sounds like a keeper, to me! Here from Michele's!
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