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MERMAID, 53x48x23 inches. Designed as a ship's figurehead.
For luck or tradition, the carver's art of the figurehead has led many a ship oer the world oceans and carried their crews safely home.
Mermaids and mermen have been a common theme for millennia, in part, because they represent the hybridity, ambiguity, and in-between-ness of human existence and the sub-conscious desire to return to the waters from whence we came
About this piece:
She is young, strong, proud, vibrant, she rides the bow wave with her eyes wide open, scanning the horizon, she will guide her ship through unknown and dangerous seas to bring her beloved sailors safely home.
Art has a moral responsibility, that it must pursue something higher than it's self. Art must be a part of life. It must exist in the domain of the common man. It must be an enriching, ennobling and vital partner in the public pursuit of civilization. It should be a majestic presence in everyday life just as it was in the past. We need to feel the transforming power of beauty; and to revel in the world around us. (If I emulate the masters, it is out of respect.)- Rod Patterson
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