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Saturday, September 28, 2013
Fishing With Clay
Fish-Head: sculpture mix; green and blue glazes, layered.
2009 vintage.
My favorite word--garsecg--from the Old English Beowulf is a kenning or poetic riddle-word for the sea. It means "the spear-man," perhaps the echo of a figure like the Norse Aegir or some other surly northern Neptune. In other texts, garsecg seems to be an adjective meaning "sea-like," "stormy" or "tempestuous."