Sunday, April 19, 2009

Cartouche

And what, pray, is the Bonnetts horse? asked Pliny the Elder.

It's a life size model of a dapple grey that stands outside Bonnetts Saddlery half way down Magill Road on the way into the city.

And is it dangerous?

Not exactly, but it can give you a fright if you're daydreaming. Especially if it's wearing the electric blue hood with the pointy ears.

How far is it from the nail?

A longish way. In fact, if you're going past the Bonnetts horse you can avoid the nail altogether by continuing down to the Maid and Magpie, crossing Fullarton Road and walking along North Terrace to the university. But that way you have to pass the Ozturf cows.

The Ozturf cows! What are those?

They're two full sized black and white fibreglass cows that graze on the synthetic grass out the front of Ozturf. At least I think they call it Ozturf. They make synthetic grass anyway. The cows are an advertisement.

How do they work as an advertisement? Buy synthetic grass so cows won't eat it?

Well, Pliny, I hadn't really thought. But I imagine it's more along the lines of : Our synthetic grass is so realistic that cows will eat it. Anyway, all these hazardous animals are just far enough away from the nail to create something of a problem with regard to scale. Do you think I should make three separate maps? I don't really want to.

Of course not. I suggest that instead you use the horse and the cows as an embellishment, and show each of them inside a cartouche.

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