Small Monster Building Blocks
Painting and Story by Lehan Winifred Ramsay
The ant with his whole world carried on his back struggles at life. The world is heavy, the only way to make it easier is to make blocks. Each of these blocks contains a task that needs to be done. Publicity is a block, keeping the house clean is a block, preparing classes is a block, the maintenance of pets is a block. Once each of these blocks is constructed and set in motion, it will carry on automatically, not halted by anything but the largest obstacle. In this way the ant has learned the use of tools, extending his six legs with autonomous blocks. Small monster blocks.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Ants are amazing creatures Lehan
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I love the small monster building blocks. To my eye they’re rather like a highly stylised almost abstracted fissure eruption, like this;
I think it’s the blackened foreground and the smoke filled sky
I particularly like the imapsto effect that gives the small monster blocks what look like eyes, but which to my mind seem to be kind of pilot lights, small flames that might, at any moment, erupt into a consuming conflagration.
Small monster building blocks indeed. I love it.
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That was really nice Warrigal.
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I’m afraid I’m currently winning a small war against a large herd of small ants, Lehan; not a task I enjoy, but it had to be done; murdering the poor little blighters by the score, I am… and they think I’m a kind and benevelent godlike critter who feeds them lovely-tasting fluid food that they take back to the nest to feed themselves and their babies on… Oh well, I suppose I’ll feed enough insects when I’m dead to make up for those I kill while I’m alive; ‘Karma, ne?’
Everything that happens in nature is both monstrous from one perspective, and marvellous from another; all depends on where one happens to be situated… and what one is eating…
😉
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Asty, I have never worried too much about ants and not even spiders cause me grief…but flies are something else, they took away so much of my my pleasure in country living.
Lehan, I like the simplicity of this painting. There is a photo of your Pink Drink on Gerard’s ‘Cheer up Man’ story…
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Oh now I see it Helvi! That’s great! It’s the first time I’ve seen one of my paintings in someone’s house! It looks nice there. Hope you enjoy it.
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