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Thursday, July 18, 2013
Elemental!
The Captive, Unbound --
Sculpture mix; shino and trans-brown glazing; copper wire, beaten.
(I also call this fellow Nisus, The Trojan Captive, after a story-sequence and notes that comprise one of those books I haven't written yet.)
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."