HARRY NIGHTINGALE
“Of course I didn’t tell anyone; that would be stupid.”
This story depicts a seven-year-old boy who witnesses a cataclysmic event: the sky erupts in front of his eyes, morphing ‘heaven’ into ‘hell’. Technically, I focus on surrealism, leitmotif and inversions of normality: the narration is from a child’s perspective, yet is almost poetic in its abstract processes.These are linked to my stimuli, especially Graham Greene’s ‘The End of the Party’ and ‘I Spy’, both of which explore underlying, suppressed insanity and the use of a child protagonist. Within the 1970s English home, the rich imagination of the child streams unhindered, freely painting his picture of the world around him.
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