Birth of the Aquariam Fishboy
© 1995 Ruary Allan
18" x 24"
oil on canvas

Born of the Great Paleolithic Earth Mother, this late twentieth century kid finds himself all at sea without a rudder and in a boat dissolving into the cosmos. The prescribed course is to row to the stump covered island and join in the destruction of our forests, but given his transformative body symmetry he probably has different ideas such as diving into the great ocean of the unconscious. The island (held aloft by the Earth Mother) supports a great golden tower/ lighthouse/ crane from which dangles a sheep-like middle manager. He tugs on the hair of the Earth Mother to induce her production of grapes which turn into golden coins falling uselessly into the ocean. The owl, symbolic of wisdom in the European tradition and death in the Native American, spouts a mushroom cloud. Perhaps, given the incorrect geometry of the crescent moon, the source of illumination in the sunset is not the true sun at all, but a nuclear impostor.

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