MUSTACHED CHERUBS AND THE MIDNIGHT MOON
MUSTACHED CHERUBS AND THE MIDNIGHT MOON is an 8X6 limited edition signed print. It was made using a late 1800s(?) b&w tintype which I copied, enlarged, and colorized. I added clouds, the moon and the starry universe behind it.
In researching the pix’s origins on Tin Eye, I found one reference for a blog called Matthew’s Island. But no info about the identity of the mustached men who lean on an altar or the person who photographed and posed them. It’s likely that it was based on a similar pose of a pair of painted cherubs over an altar in the Sistine Chapel. That explains the lace altar cloth the naked men lean on. Not your average Sistine Scene, right?
I added the moon to support my unspoken theme. It’s the same moon the Sistine Chapel artist stared at. It’s the same moon the 19th century men stared at. It’s the same moon I stare at. Waxing and waning year after year.
This haiku (maybe Basho’s?) fits the theme. Continuity and change. “The moon glows the same, / It is the drifting cloud forms / That make it seem to change.”
In researching the pix’s origins on Tin Eye, I found one reference for a blog called Matthew’s Island. But no info about the identity of the mustached men who lean on an altar or the person who photographed and posed them. It’s likely that it was based on a similar pose of a pair of painted cherubs over an altar in the Sistine Chapel. That explains the lace altar cloth the naked men lean on. Not your average Sistine Scene, right?
I added the moon to support my unspoken theme. It’s the same moon the Sistine Chapel artist stared at. It’s the same moon the 19th century men stared at. It’s the same moon I stare at. Waxing and waning year after year.
This haiku (maybe Basho’s?) fits the theme. Continuity and change. “The moon glows the same, / It is the drifting cloud forms / That make it seem to change.”