Fish and Swimming Lionfish

Fish

Oil on Canvas

If a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air,

then a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape.*

Doris Lessing

2007 Nobel Prize Laureate (Literature)

* paraphrased to reverse the sequence

Many … go fishing all of their lives without knowing that

it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

Paul Schullery

contemporary conservationist, writer, and scholar

Swimming Lionfish

31.5 x 21.5 in

Art as an Oasis™

Art as an Oasis is a series of occasional postings from the art of Carrie Kleinberger

providing a temporary respite from both mundane and monumental cares

complimented by words of wisdom from a diversity of others.

~ with reference to the Minnesota fishing opener 2020 ~`