Artist & Generalist
“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.” –The Bible, Psalms 107:23-24 . . Last stop on the watercolor tour of the ancient wonders with @jpchakra, The Lighthouse at Alexandria.
“Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves.” –William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar . . The Colossus of Rhodes, the penultimate ancient wonder with @jpchakra and myself.
“The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other men’s lives.” –Pericles . . The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, stop number five on the seven ancient wonders with @jpchakra.
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of the air, that emanation from the old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” –Robert Louis Stevenson . . Stop number four, The Temple of Artemis, of the seven ancient wonders with @jpchakra.
“He spoke, the son of Kronos, and nodded his head with the dark brows, and the immortally anointed hair of the great god swept from his divine head, and all Olympos was shaken.” –The Iliad . . A painful rendition of the Statue of Zeus as part three of @jpchakra and my drawing of the seven ancient wonders.