I Don't Like Mondays

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Do not have bad Mondays.---- Mondays are in a new week -- I say get on with it

My first sighting of this abstract was a ship with the sails taken up! Just shows how people see different things in abstract. Then I read your piece; I didn't like mondays at school either. In fact didn't much like any day at school! And yes I remember those wash days!

I had been thinking about the Mondays of my youth. The school days! After a good weekend remembering how terrible it was to have to go back into school on Monday. It was after all a Monday, and for me so far not a good one. So I headed to my painting space and poured some of my favourite colours and painted. I had been thinking about Mondays, the first day back at school after a good weekend. Then there were the times when I spent the summer holidays with my Gran. Monday was her day to have the communal washhouse. She lived in a tenement building. At the back there was a large pole. Strung from this pole to each of the houses back window was a rope pulley system. My Gran would lean out the back window and hang her clothes on this rope and pull it until the clothes were out between the pole and the window, where they caught the wind. At the bottom of the garden was a washhouse with a large boiler with a coal fire underneath. The clothes were boiled in this with some of the soap powder from a little box. I even remember it was , “Akdo.” It took her most of the day to accomplish this washing. An event. What it meant was that on Mondays she an I did nothing much else. So I heard again the song, by the, Boomtown Rats, “I Don’t Like Mondays. So this abstract came from these thoughts. Painted on acrylic paper with acrylic paint. Most of it was painted using my fingers. I hope you can see all the things I was thinking, especially the line from the song that says, “I want to shoot the whole day down.” In fact once again painting had rid me of bad feeling and I was already feeling better. I hope this abstract does this for you. Painting size with mount is 16" x 20"