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Fire on Ice

Details: Mid Ocean and The Ocean, ca. 1900, by Frederick Judd Waugh.

Aldrich Hezekiah – Angelfish

Gallery Note: Icarus’s father, the inventor Daedalus, made wings that allowed them to fly away from their island prison. The exhilarated Icarus forgot warnings and soared too close to the sun, melting the wax that secured the feathers, and he fell to his death. Charles Darwin’s publication of “On the Origin of Species” in 1859 gave an optimistic picture of the present and future evolution of humankind, but it also introduced ideas of a deep and obscure past. Art and literature took up this theme of origins, man’s mythical history and struggles between animal and human nature.

the wreck of the peter iredale // oregon coast