There is so much to like about this simple image. I love it's overall lightness and the airy tone created by the blue and the clouds and the boat and the birds on the bottom. Just a few strokes make a convincing flock of birds and just a few splashes of watercolor around the boat define sea sky and clouds. The sharp slope of the hull of the boat makes it feel like it's soaring at a high speed. The word "Arthur" has a great brick-like texture. The breathing-Barry figure is a fun image, though eye placement is a bit spooky. And the overall respiratory theme is unusual, but somehow pleasing. Only the hastily-penned word "Dearest" near the top feels out of place. Almost like an afterthought. Overall a very cheerful greeting that all "Kelly-branded" 7/15ers should love.
Profound. Profound. Toasting a breath in honor of a birthday. A poignant reminder that our next breath may well be our last. The blue clearly signifies sadness and the red, blood. The only happiness available to us is the passing to the next world as we shed our earthly form, symbolized by the x-ray like view of the body, and flee this earth. This transition is beautifully represented by the boat, sailing not through water, but through clouds and on to the heavens. Should there be any doubt that the boat is sailing through a sky, the artist has included a flock of birds flying well below. The simple translucency of the birds remind us that they have already made the transition from flesh and blood to spirit. While the central theme of death and passing is an unusual choice for a birthday card, the artist can be forgiven for joyfully looking to the near future when the subject of the card has passed peacefully to other worlds.
Conspicuous use of suffix "dio", suggesting attribution of god-status to dad, and in this picture, the son-dio is barry, of one substance with the dad, whose breath, which he receives from the dad, goes out to enliven the creation, as in Genesis 2:7. Werra inneresting.
Somebody's in seminary! Genesis is chill. I was reading through these world creation stories recently: http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/CS/CSIndex.html It's interesting to see what they have in common. A squishy muddy world, dividing opposites, increasing complexity, plants before animals, animals before people. It's strange that early cultures would seem to get the general trajectory of evolution correct.
This is excellent... here's an analysis in a style I know Cogs appreciates: it's frenetic, yet contemplative. Good birds, good lung diagram, a suitable tribute to our family's two members who are worst at walking.
There is so much to like about this simple image. I love it's overall lightness and the airy tone created by the blue and the clouds and the boat and the birds on the bottom. Just a few strokes make a convincing flock of birds and just a few splashes of watercolor around the boat define sea sky and clouds. The sharp slope of the hull of the boat makes it feel like it's soaring at a high speed. The word "Arthur" has a great brick-like texture. The breathing-Barry figure is a fun image, though eye placement is a bit spooky. And the overall respiratory theme is unusual, but somehow pleasing. Only the hastily-penned word "Dearest" near the top feels out of place. Almost like an afterthought. Overall a very cheerful greeting that all "Kelly-branded" 7/15ers should love.
ReplyDeleteProfound. Profound. Toasting a breath in honor of a birthday. A poignant reminder that our next breath may well be our last. The blue clearly signifies sadness and the red, blood. The only happiness available to us is the passing to the next world as we shed our earthly form, symbolized by the x-ray like view of the body, and flee this earth. This transition is beautifully represented by the boat, sailing not through water, but through clouds and on to the heavens. Should there be any doubt that the boat is sailing through a sky, the artist has included a flock of birds flying well below. The simple translucency of the birds remind us that they have already made the transition from flesh and blood to spirit. While the central theme of death and passing is an unusual choice for a birthday card, the artist can be forgiven for joyfully looking to the near future when the subject of the card has passed peacefully to other worlds.
ReplyDeleteUNK? Is that you?
ReplyDeleteConspicuous use of suffix "dio", suggesting attribution of god-status to dad, and in this picture, the son-dio is barry, of one substance with the dad, whose breath, which he receives from the dad, goes out to enliven the creation, as in Genesis 2:7. Werra inneresting.
ReplyDeleteI think "Vidal" is dad.
Somebody's in seminary! Genesis is chill. I was reading through these world creation stories recently: http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/CS/CSIndex.html
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to see what they have in common. A squishy muddy world, dividing opposites, increasing complexity, plants before animals, animals before people. It's strange that early cultures would seem to get the general trajectory of evolution correct.
This is excellent... here's an analysis in a style I know Cogs appreciates: it's frenetic, yet contemplative.
ReplyDeleteGood birds, good lung diagram, a suitable tribute to our family's two members who are worst at walking.