Figure 1 – Moby Dick meets Georgia O’Keefe, Salem MA, Derby Wharf.(c) DE Wolf 2020.
This morning on the wharf, someone had dragged the leviathan fish skeleton of Figure 1 up from the beach and onto the jetty wall. It is kind of a cross: Moby Dick meets Georgia O’Keefe. The grotesque seeming leviathan of the figure is a thing of childhood. Now, we believe we know almost all there is to know about the see. Not so in the time of boyhood and not so in the time of Melville. It is a place of great magic, where strange, yet wonderful things, are set to wash up on beaches, and such things make one wonder again.
“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath…”
― Moby-Dick or, the Whale