BANG! Archives - Falmouth & Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Regatta 2014 Arts Project with Artist in Residence John Dyer

In a dark, scary, dusty box I saw nothing,but there were more fireworks I’m sure. Suddenly the box started moving. I felt scared… I had no idea what was happening, the box was moving side to side like a rocking horse. Just then I did a sigh of relief as the ride finally started to get calmer.
Slowly the box opened bit by bit the sun came shimmering though, I saw people they were massive, scary and tall they stared at us, I looked around I saw more of us fireworks, he started taking us out one by one and carefully placing us down on the ground. But why and how did I get here? While I was being put down I saw ships and houses…
1 minute later…
I got hotter (sizzle) and I was getting ready to go up into the night sky shining with stars. I went up zooming and whizzing through the sky running like a horse galloping in a race. Half way up I saw boats as tall as a giraffe. They were white, new and glistened in the moon lit sky. There were people playing music and singing their socks off… at the top I can see everything more clearly now I can smell the other fireworks after their bang. BANG! BANG! BANG! I saw the other fireworks BANG! I saw the tall ships from above and jumping, happy, exited people, cheering, screaming, BANG! However the tall ships where still coming in as slow as a snail I started falling.
“Ahhhh” I yelled,I started getting faster and faster even though it felt slow it was really fast . . .

BANG! BANG! BANG! I can hear the other fireworks as I die in the sea. BANG!…

Dear Diary,
This morning, I woke up and put on my clothes on what seemed a normal day. As I glanced through my window, to my amazement, I saw a shiny pole twinkling in the sun light whistling past, I wondered what this was all about then I heard 3 very loud bang’s one after another, “BANG!BANG!BANG!”
The penny just dropped. It had been 200 years since the cargo ships had started coming into the harbour. All of a sudden I felt young glaring at the beautiful but old ships.
There was one ship however which caught my eye. It had a golden angel on the front which looked like she was dancing gracefully in the blazing sun. It was beautiful.
There were also other people bustling and jostling to get a good look at these old ships sailing peacefully into the harbour. There were people everywhere cramming into stalls, running to the luxurious sweet shops, but right by the cliff edge was the biggest croud of all because they could not take their eyes off the legendary ships.