Tag: abstraction

“Such is the music of the loom: the water pushed up onto the strand, and the water drawn back into the ocean." 

Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.

“The ocean, for all who feel compelled to gaze into it, shows in each reflected face the single stitch each individual life adds into all lives, those individual fates of which the fated have no sight except themselves, except their eyes staring back into their eyes, and so promising us we exist.”

Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.

“The ocean, for all who feel compelled to gaze into it, shows in each reflected face the single stitch each individual life adds into all lives, those individual fates of which the fated have no sight except themselves, except their eyes staring back into their eyes, and so promising us we exist.”

Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.

“All people are impelled to gaze out at the ocean. Ishmael claims a narcissistic urge guides us all unconsciously to the sea. In the reflection of our face on water we seem to see the vast secret of our own lives." 

Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.

“All people are impelled to gaze out at the ocean. Ishmael claims a narcissistic urge guides us all unconsciously to the sea. In the reflection of our face on water we seem to see the vast secret of our own lives." 

Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.