New Release!
As an interlude, below is one of my most recent works, finished just last week –
a pelican I saw on a pre-Covid visit to Tampa, Florida Aquarium.
As I was staring at the pelican, behind glass, thinking of its beauty and captivity, I found the pelican staring back at me.
Oil on Belgian Linen
30 x 24 in
What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican,
and feed thee out of my own vitals?
William Congreve
Love for Love, Act II, Scene 1
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity,
except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
A wonderful bird is a pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week;
But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
Dixon Lanier Merritt
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.
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