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Published: 2013-02-28 19:53:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 764; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 0
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Paper collage and tea stain on playing card, 2.5 x 3.5 inches.Related content
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it's going to take a team, the bigger the better
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that label on them that says immortal should really have an asterisk!
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Something went wrong, Richard. Jellyfish is "immoral"!
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one needs something to pass all that time
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those red dots on the right seem fundamental in this context...!
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well this is the only reference i have, i just have to trust it
and i agree about those red dots even though i am not sure just why!
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ok, let's trust then
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And you can't get an immortal jellyfish sitter for love or money.
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Nice form... rather like a jellyfish. I never question why I like it or what the artist means... it is a personal thing. Love it.
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Thanks very much, Myrna, and I like your approach.
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Do you think we could extract those immortal genes and somehow combine them with gobstoppers to make them everlasting?
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lol - that is probably the best comment yet on this
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and you ?
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i just had to find a way to use the jellyfish scrap, it's been lying around for weeks. i glued it onto something else and wasn't satisfied so i dissolved the glue and took it off again! collage is a maniacal process sometimes. but the scale is small so it's not too embarrassing
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maniac but simple, that's the general idea.
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Why can't the damned things feed themsElves, that's what I want to know.
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Well you know... feeding them isn't that great but... it's a living.
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They quite like canned cat food. Such a mess.
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And to you, as well.
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~ ain't it the truth -- summer job back in '87 - they sting you know.
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the immortal ones sting like crazy
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i am not sure i reconize the jellyfish, i rather see some toucan, with its huge beak, but anyways, i always love strange creatures
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there is a toucan there too - the jellyfish is swimming sideways
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ha ! sorry for being so slow ... now your mysterious sentence makes a bit more sense
and the toucan should seriously consider to fight for his right to retire
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well it doesn't have to make complete sense 
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i even learned from you that it was better when not totally making sense ... it kinda makes the work a bit more open
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Poor jellyfish - he thinks that he is immortal. 
This is another collage that has a Zen feel for me, Richard. I think that the background's parchment look, the simple composition, and the faded red along the right margin have a lot to do with that. The smile that I perceive also tends to look like the expression of some Zen monks that I have seen depicted in old drawings. Maybe the "jellyfish" is actually a stooped monk, traveling in a non-dual manner, somewhere in the realm between dual concepts (-P and +P). Too many words. Translation: I like it!
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Thanks, Vic. Not too many words at all - I love the stooped monk!
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Jellyfish of the tea stain ? 
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And now for a more analytical reading of the cards : many of your collages seem to be made on the playing cards , creating art can be a gamble ,cards are also used to read fortunes - collage , with short suggestive words ,draws towards intuition and insight,
abilities that may seem like they would predict the future ( and some times they do )
tea leaves are also used for prediction ,here the yellyfish made from tea stain ,yellyfish ,liguid-like,transparent next to being immaterial ,immortal - soul .So they are true words : Caring for the immortal soul is a full time job.
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Thank you very much for this extra reading of the piece. I put the pieces together with a lot of intuition and then when they are done see what I have. So - the idea of the soul was not something I began with, but when I finished I indeed saw that it was there.
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