Thursday, March 26, 2009

From the Beach - Man of War

Location: Beach

I found a lot of these critters washed up on a beach in Florida. They are beautiful to see sailing over the water, but quite painful to bump in to. The Man of War has a pretty blue color made by nature. It's not art because basically it's just a dead organism washed ashore by a storm. However, as will be seen in later posts, we are drawn to strange things that show up on the beach. We stand there are gawk and poke and prod at them like they were some kind of art. I stood there for a good while studying the jellyfish because it was strange to see it out of its element. It's like artifacts from other cultures that have been taken and placed in a museum out of their intended context.

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