My daughter loves Noel Fielding. He is a British comedian, who has off-the-wall ideas and a HUGE following around the world. I don’t always get his humor at first encounter; it seems to fly over my head.
In particular was a comedy sketch I saw a few years ago about Fielding’s visit to a seaside town. Fielding goes into a pub and meets a local artist who covers everyday objects in shells—cups, shoes, telephone books—even his own wife!!!
My daughter just laughed and laughed, but I thought it was weird. I just didn’t get it--that is until this Christmas when I was attempting to make star ornaments with broken glass and adhering them to aluminum with mastic. I started laughing hysterically. When I looked around my house in Spanaway, I discovered, that I too, “put shells on things”—only my shells are tiles.
Inside and outside, within the past ten years, I have broken tiles and adhered them to a shower stall, broken tiles and put them on the countertops in both bathrooms, broken tiles and put them on walls. I have even broken them and attached them to the base of the old fiberglass shower and created a garden shrine.
It took me years to understand, but I freely admit … and laugh now … “I put tiles on things!”
