We have some old home movies where my mother's disembodied hand enters the scene to smooth someone's hair or adjust their Batman cape, but this takes it to a whole new level. I feel like I can almost see her, like she would be a kindred spirit if I could only see her face.So what do you see?
~ A smart mother who found a clever way to keep baby happy while posing for a picture of the children?
~ A justification for blogging, which allows mothers to send comminques out into the world and, with, luck avoid becoming totally invisible?
~ A sad metaphor for women's role in society: holding it up, placed front-and-center, but obscured by florals?
~ A perfect allegory for the life of a mother and housewife, wherein the person who pressed and tied those little bows gets no credit or even recognition?
What do you think?
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Maybe she was having a very bad hair and really didn't want her photo taken.
ReplyDeleteWhen I showed this to Richard he didn't think it was that odd. He said "yeah, it's weird - but they took pictures of dead people!"
ReplyDeleteI think she was keeping the baby happy.
I'm with nancy, I think she was keeping the baby happy. maybe something to do in the future?
ReplyDeleteI think she wanted a photo of the kids. ONLY the kids, but the baby needed to be held.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing, when you said to look closely but didn't say why, I looked very closely at the person under the floweredy cloth and noticed the cloth over the head looks like a skull. Allegory? - Scary! - Weird.
Maybe Mom was dead and they wanted one last photo of her and the kids.
Maybe I'm just having a macabre day.
I think I see the nanny. That's classic! Couldn't they at least have zoomed in? Done something horizontal?
ReplyDeleteI love your assessments. I think it's all of the above!
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