What is Gagagubby? I am not even sure that is how you spell it. It could be Gaagaagubby, or maybe Gahgahgubby. It is a word that does not want to exist on paper.
There are a lot of things we don’t know in life and this is just another one of those things. You won’t see it, you can’t see it as it resides in a world we cannot touch, the imagination of a 3 year old.
I can’t be sure that the person who invented Gagagubby knows what it is, although I have to admit it appears to be a very useful and flexible word indeed.
We create in our imagination, loads of crazy things that we don’t know, don’t understand and can’t explain.
Gagagubby was brought alive finding his place in the world. Each day a workshop for experimentation, triggers and ideas, a playful process devoid of risk. He gives it a name because he can share it with us.
Our imagination is so powerful it is hard to communicate its ideas. Who’s failure is that?
Despite my best efforts I have failed to reverse engineer its meaning. I have tried to use it myself in conversation but invariably I am met with a stern ‘No’. Gagagubby has remained as elusive as the great Yeti.
And now it’s footprint is fading, I can’t even say if it will survive as a fully fledged memory. That makes me a little sad, so I have bound it, if not by definition, unwillingly to this page.
As frustrating as it is I love that we will never know what Gagagubby was, and that for a short period of time it was meaningful for at least one small person.