To The Sea
words by Nina George
Acrylic on panel
Font: Iowan Old Style Italic (John Downer, 1991)
48" x 36"
2020
$1000
Font: Iowan Old Style Italic (John Downer, 1991)
48" x 36"
2020
$1000
ORIGINAL CONTEXT
The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel
Translated by Simon Pare 2015, Crown Publishers page 306 “So Jean let the waves rock him, raise him up and pass him on. And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, far from it; no one should make that mistake! Jean Perdu trusted himself again. He wouldn’t go under he wouldn’t drown in his emotions.
And each time he abandoned himself to the sea another small grain of fear trickled out of him. It was his way of praying. The whole of July, the whole of August." |