Sunday, July 13, 2025

Rhyming Unaware

1 comment:

Tom Roark said...

This series of drawings started with random layers of charcoal. I'd see something in the mess, and develop that. The Rhyming Unaware business is from the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. The Mariner kills a harmless albatross, so he and his shipmates are cursed. They die and he drifts until he is struck by the beauty of some sea snakes and blesses them "unaware." This spontaneous, and therefore meaningful act lifts the curse. The Mariner has a lot of white hair. On his shoulder, through no intention of mine, you can see a square jawed chap in a bicorne hat worn en bataille, a blessing unaware.