1st year art & design project lsad

blog no 8 . this a linocut of a gannets skull i found on the seabed ,30 meters deep while diving on the wreck of a first world war German submarine . All the crew are still inside , they were minelaying outside Cork harbour when one of their own mines exploded. They were all drowned , they got a hatch open but no one got out . Its a dark ,dangerous and sinister place down there and i thought the little skull made a suitable momento mori.Once I had it finished I it looked a bit like a broken wreck on the seabed its self , I may try and trt and do a bigger version that sugests a shipwreck.

 The point about relating how the skull was found is that it is now a treasure , it came from a deep dark place , recovered at some personal risk , associated with violent death & great world events . There is something of the grail quest about it. I'm interested in this elevation of mundane objects by their circumstances . Put any object in a velvet lined, box it becomes interesting more so if the box is fancy. The first known piece of art is a pretty stone discovered on a shelf where it couldn't have ended up naturally. Someone who wasn't as yet fully human found it, thought "thats pretty"brought it home where it remained till discovered by archeolegists  a million years later.