What’s your Bottle?

There are many things to be said about a bottle. There are many ways the word “Bottle” has been used to refer to a number of things.

“Bottled Up,” “Broken Bottles,” “Green Bottles Standing on the Wall,” “Baby Bottle,” new and en vogue, “Bottle Art,” and one that I coined, “Dollhead in a Bottle.”

When it’s bottled up it is festering, seething, closed off, hidden, not voiced, often because of the pain it created, timing uncertain for release, uncertainty of how to release. The eventual letting off is sometimes violent, harsh, far-reaching, explosive, sensual and passionate even.

And the broken bottles? They always have pain, blood-shed and hurt attached if one comes into contact with them. Sometimes the effects are long-term causing infection, paralysis maybe, depending on the severity of the effect.

The bottles standing on the wall takes us back to school days and that song, but also alludes to so many missed opportunities that occur due to mishaps.

Ah! And that baby bottle that we latched on to replace our Mom’s breasts. Some of us did not want to part with it although it’s time had passed and we had overgrown it’s effectiveness for our nutrition.

Nowadays, there is a blooming and emerging of creativity with bottle art. It’s the rave and showcases the talents of individuals in new and innovative ways we had hitherto not thought off a few short years ago.

My Dollhead in a bottle demonstrtes the continued zeal and faith that one manifests even when things take a downward turn. I absolutely adored and cherished my dolls as a child. Once when one had her torso dismantled, I saved her by placing her head in a coke bottle. I needed to protect my dollhead.

So you see, bottles have importance, still have relevance and we all have “A Bottle” in our lives. As we sit in the garden, let’s think about what our bottle might be.r