Bratt and Olpop

ADVENTURE

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We have met many mischievous young bucks since the Riddlington series began with Riddlington himself. Now we meet the really old mischievous bucks.

Leading this pack is Olpop, Riddlington’s own father, who has been reminiscing, along with his three, even idler old codger companions, about their own, long-ago wild pursuits that, more often than not, bordered on precarious, let alone probably illegal, activities after witnessing the carrying-ons with his millions of offspring. It struck a chord.

He wanted in…but…

He needed a vulnerable sucker to make it happen.

He found one.

…. Bratt…

He needed a ‘lackey’ to do his bidding and arrange stuff.

He found one.

…. Bratt….

That was enough to start with. Any other stuff would automatically follow, he reasoned. After a few messy starts, and that was in the very first start, Bratt was close to telling him where he could get ‘stuff’ stuffed…but of course he didn’t.

Anyhoo, long and short, it all morphed into a battle of wits. Olpop, of course, was oblivious to any misdemeanours on his part, and apprentice Bratt learnt to take deep breaths.

Were there any winners?

You betcha!

Were there any losers?

You betcha!

Was anyone offended?

Probably.

Mary Raymond Black was born in Naracoorte, South Australia in 1946. She successfully completed the four-year Fine Art Sculpture course in 1967 at the South Australian School of Art. She has held one-man exhibitions in sculpture, drawings in charcoal, pastels, pencil, and ink, acrylic paintings, and ceramics. She has also self-published a book, Girls Only, consisting of 54 fine-line pen and ink drawings of the female form. She has many physical drawings on ‘Saatchi.com’ and is currently working on digital abstracts. She has also created free standing recycled works in the form of papier-mâché, and textile wall and floor art pieces. With all these skills combined, she has drifted into a written illustrative narrative which centres around the ever-expanding family of floppy eared white rabbits, the first of which is Riddlington, and now following is the story of his son Aristotle. It doesn’t stop here of course, there are currently 12 in the series. Like recycled sculptures, one thing leads to another…and another…and another.