Tentacles at Sea
- TENTACLES AT SEA - An acrylic painting on a 9 x 12 size poster board. It was a private commission based on a black and white drawing that I did as part of a tribute to William Hope Hodgson for "Whispers," a softcover book produced periodically by Stuart D. Schiff. It also appears in my art folio, "The Stephen E. Fabian Collection No.13: William Hope Hodgson's Sea Stories".
I once stood on the boardwalk at Atlantic City watching a sailing ship prove to me that the world was round as it slowly became smaller and smaller and eventually sunk down and disappeared beyond the Ocean's horizon.
How vast, how awesome, how frightful, the ocean seemed to me . . .
"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll on,
Ten thousand fleets have swept over thee in vain,
Man marks the earth with ruin, but stops at your shore,
At the dawn of creation, at life's front door.
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling foam,
Without a grave, un-coffin'd, unknown.
Dark heaving, boundless, endless sea,
You are the image of eternity".
- Byron -
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