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‘Spillikins’ is the name of a game I played as a child. Some call it ‘Pick Up Sticks’ and Mikado, amongst others.
Variant forms of the game are found in cultures world wide and has been played for centuries.
Some call it ‘spellekins', which may be derived from the Flemish word spelle, meaning pin, with its earlier origins in Latin.
We played with a bunch of coloured sticks, each colour having a scoring value, and we grasped them in one hand and let them drop.
Each stick had to be removed from the pile without disturbing its neighbour. Looking back, I realise that my mother was teaching my brothers and I a whole load of skills that we carried into our adult life such as concentration, dexterity, gentleness and care.
I carried on playing with my children and one day, I must have been feeling very low and tired and I saw the fallen spillikins as women.
I felt that we all stand up straight and keep up our outer persona but it only takes one hand to make you fall, one unjust action and life can be a total mess; that all of the skills learnt as a child must be set in practice in order to repair the damage so that no-one else is disturbed.
Years later, when I started drawing, I immediately called the first one a ‘spillikin’. Strange really because it was not at all figurative – it was a vase of flower stems, without any heads and it was about asking the question “why have you taken my flowers?”
Spillikins stuck and that was that!
Here you can find the Ananna Image art collections. Please note that for copyright protection reasons, all images
have been watermarked. The actual products are not overlayed with the Ananna Image logo.
See the Fenwick Lawson Collection
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