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Why Gannet? Why Search the Sea?
- Gannet Girl
- Gannets are enormous and sleek creamy-white seabirds, with black wingtips, yellow heads and necks, and startlingly outlined eyes. They nest on the rocky cliffs of the European and North American coasts of the North Atlantic and, once grown, spend their days sailing across the ocean. The acrobatics by which they make their living ~ steep climbs into the air and speedy plunges straight into the sea ~ are rivaled only by those of pelicans. What better metaphor for a sweeping search of one's life choices and opportunities than a gannet extended above the waves, a regal and yet restless surveyor of the vast ocean surface? The gannet reminds us that life is an adventure in both beauty and profound unease, and that the sea itself is limitless in its textures and possibilities.
Gannet Way Out Over The Sea - a gift from Stushie
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9 comments:
Lovely.
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Oops! I meant to say, The Annunciation is here at the Phila Museum of Art.
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V, I did not know that's where it is. Someday I will have to get there. This might be my favorite painting ever.
That is a GORGEOUS painting.
PS Because of your introduction, I still check Funky on the website everyday! Thanks.
That just grabs your gut, doesn't it? Shows Mary as she would have been--a YOUNG girl. Kind of makes the story much more real...
That is gorgeous, GG.
Truly beautiful. Thanks for sharing it.
This is one of my favorite paintings of all time. If you come to Philadelphia to see it, please let me know and we'll have a blogger meet-up. If it's still displayed the same way it was a few years ago, there is an equally haunting small pencil drawing of Mary as an old woman in an adjacent gallery, a poignant juxtaposition.
P.S. Ages ago, I saw on your profile that two of your favorite books are "Gilead" and "To Kill A Mockingbird," I wondered if we might have been separated at birth, but your choice of this painting seals it.
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