The GoodFather of Math: AQUABATICS #2: Vertical Fish Made Me Wish

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Monday, June 9, 2014

AQUABATICS #2: Vertical Fish Made Me Wish

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I Wish I Were French Symbolist Odilon Redon

Then I would look
at the garden eel...

An artistic urge
would make
me feel

I have been
through the
looking glass

At their aquatic
home. Now I
must pass...

To my own home
immediately

And think most
creatively

How strong I
would feel it

Inspiration:
my co-pilot

A water worm dance
filling my head

Charcoal dancing
in my bed

Aha! Aha!
Ahem! Ahem!

I, being Redon,
would then create

A HEAD ON A STEM

Odilon Redon
(1840-1916)

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Footnotes
The image page for Odilon Redon is here.

AQUABATICS is a series of GoodFather pages
inspired by visiting the Aquarium of the Pacific.

The "Dubious Docent" (aka, me) could not have created this page
without the help of an art historian better known as Mrs. CarPeo.

The "Vertical Fish" also made me wish I didn't have to borrow
their image from Mr. Jay Pegg.

But Mr. Pegg photographed the garden eels at their community center
with enough verticality to justify the page title.

As for Dubious Docent, he photographed
a small family of eels in a swaying mood.