When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:
But, when the tide rises and Sharks are around,
His voice has a timid & tremulous sound. — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (1865)
Category Archives: The Sea
Brine Shine
Study of waves, wave-crests and foam by the Armenian artist Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900)
Aivazovsky was a citizen of Imperial Russia whose name is Հովհաննես Այվազյան in Armenian and Иван Айвазовский in Russian.
Thalassic Classic
The Silver Moon Nocturne by Montague Dawson (1890-1973)
(Click for larger)
Loricifera Rising
The very Lovecraftian Loriciferan Pliciloricus enigmaticus (Higgins & Kristensen, 1986)
N.B. The title of this incendiary intervention is a paronomasia on Kenneth Anger’s film Lucifer Rising (1972) (which I ain’t never seen nohow).
Foam Comb
A Venus comb murex, Murex pecten (Lightfoot 1786)
Fish upon a Star
Lionfish fry photographed by Steven Kovacs off Palm Beach, Florida, 2017
Eyeway to Shell
Masques made with Seashells by Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-79) (click for larger)
Previously pre-posted:
• Eyeway to Ell — a better paronamasia than this one…
Bi-Kin (Lichen)
Sunburst lichen, Xanthorina parietina,* and Sea ivory, Ramalina siliquosa
Previously pre-posted:
• Songs from the Center of the Sun — an interview with Faster Than Lichen
• The Gold and the Grey — a pre-previous pre-posting of another version of this image
*Possibly.
Surf’s Up!
The surfer Darrick Doerner riding a big wave in Hawaii (from The Daily Mail)
(click image for full size)
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #63
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Bullets and Butterflies – Mad Dog Killers: The Story of a Congo Mercenary, Ivan Smith (Helion / 30° South Publishers 2012)
• Jaundiced on George – George Orwell: English Rebel, Robert Colls (Oxford University Press 2013)
• Crabsody in View – RSPB Handbook of the Seashore, Maya Plass (Bloomsbury 2013)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
