This piece came about as kind of a magical mystery for me!! Including the Pan theme, I put together the images thinking of Pan sort of on the look out for love for you. I really like the idea of the goats looking out the window watching for that special someone to pass by and imagined them running to report when it happened! The images of the oranges and fish were present in the original photograph of the window and I collaged the goats in. I loved this "frame" of flowers and had no idea who Carl Linnaeus was but figured I could change the name or cover it somehow. I had the feeling for this piece but the images seemed so random! Because I really liked the way it looked I googled the name and was THRILLED to read that he was "father of modern taxonomy" and that his taxonomic approach became the systematic approach to the study of organisms, including fish. It fit so well and to me incorporated the idea of the goats classifying and studying the potential companions passing by. The Chinese believe the orange is a prayer or wish for good fortune, and in Pagan traditions the fish is a feminine symbol of fertility and an attribute of the Goddess. Water is a natural emblem of the flow of the Divine Mother principal, and as such, all creatures of the water (including fish) are aspects of the fertility and power of the female deity. The definition of Osteichthyes is : also called bony fish, are a taxonomic group of fish that have bony, as opposed to fish with cartilaginous, skeletons.
So, there you have it!!
Oranges and Osteichthyes!!!
I hope that who ever purchases this piece smiles when they look at it thinking of the potential that love has in making their life complete!!!
Oranges and Osteichthyes
$150
11 X 14
Mixed media, collage
©Wendy Gill Art
ps I have been practicing saying Osteichthyes so when someone at the show asks me about it I sound super intellegent!!
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