What a beautiful picture. A realist Alfonso Ossario. Touché!
Big like for his paintings. Some time ago, I picked up an art book from his collection at a library book sale. His signature is a work of art by itself.
Fascinating creatures! Echoes from another time..
They are!
I had to look it up, too. Interesting about the similarity to Ossorio – I haven’t thought about him in a long time. It must have been exciting to find that book, that’s cool.
The photo has an intense beauty, things that are dead and not normally thought of as beautiful, the ground, etc. – all brought together and looking to me as pretty as a complex tapestry.
I always have a quick association with my mother when I see Horseshoe crabs. She grew up in Port Washington and talked about large numbers of them on the beaches – I think it was Jones Beach they went to, back in the 1920s & 30s. Can you imagine how different it was then??
I like your observation about things that are dead and not normally considered beautiful being present here with some degree of harmony. For me, it was important to make that connection, even if I didn’t post the picture. That’s a great association you have with these crabs and your mom. It is hard to imagine this island a hundred years ago.
Let alone two or three or four hundred years ago. But it’s probably good to try. Certainly a little easier on the East End!
JOHN TODARO
Had to look that up 😂
But you were our Latin scholar!
What a beautiful picture. A realist Alfonso Ossario. Touché!
Big like for his paintings. Some time ago, I picked up an art book from his collection at a library book sale. His signature is a work of art by itself.
Fascinating creatures! Echoes from another time..
They are!
I had to look it up, too. Interesting about the similarity to Ossorio – I haven’t thought about him in a long time. It must have been exciting to find that book, that’s cool.
The photo has an intense beauty, things that are dead and not normally thought of as beautiful, the ground, etc. – all brought together and looking to me as pretty as a complex tapestry.
I always have a quick association with my mother when I see Horseshoe crabs. She grew up in Port Washington and talked about large numbers of them on the beaches – I think it was Jones Beach they went to, back in the 1920s & 30s. Can you imagine how different it was then??
I like your observation about things that are dead and not normally considered beautiful being present here with some degree of harmony. For me, it was important to make that connection, even if I didn’t post the picture. That’s a great association you have with these crabs and your mom. It is hard to imagine this island a hundred years ago.
Let alone two or three or four hundred years ago. But it’s probably good to try. Certainly a little easier on the East End!