"Sea Monsters" oil on paper-mounted panel, 5.75" x 5.25", 2010
Relocated to the margins of antique maps and just off the coast, you will find the oddest assortment of creatures. They float on whirlpools and menace the tall ships. They have spouts and horns. If the compass rose is a cartographer's nod of encouragement, then the sea monster is a shrug of the shoulders. It is a fear of the unknown, a filler of the empty spaces between continents. Yet who can take these hybrids seriously? And more importantly, did they ever stop anyone from exploring this watery sphere?
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