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I like the direction of this one, Peter, as if you have entered a new
dimension, among the bardos(?).
I am wondering if you would get more of a charge out of the piece if the
Fox's eyes were open - (and in that sense open both the worlds of the living
and those of the dead.
Last week, on my birthday no less, I was hiking with a friend in the Marin
Headlands, just a bit north of the Golden Gate Bridge. About 50 yards from
us, near the top of a small craggy slope just off our trail, I notice a
couple of ancient ceramic pot handle shapes emerging from a mound in the
rock. The shape did not look unfamiliar to me. (I had walked by there many
times before).
Then I realized it was a set of furry ears atop the lined face of a fully
mature lion. We kept walking parallel to him on the trail, his head lifted
and eyes tracking the profile of our movements until we disappeared.
The intensity of the lion's gaze was wonderful charge, indeed, totally
electrifying. A birthday gift for sure.
Maybe that's why I thought it might be a charge to take on the fox's
simultaneous gaze into both worlds.
Stephen V
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