Fossil

…..something that may seem a bit different, though it may not. Some may remember I was given by a dog, well that is to say the dog dropped it by my feet probably expecting a game of fetch…..a flipper, such an interesting thing in itself. I kept it. It was all bones and skin, the bones still held together. This was last August and it’s just sort of been there in view as I am painting…..not really knowing what to do with it. Far to interesting to throw away. For a while it never even occurred to me to try and identify it, well a few weeks ago I did and it kind of hit home, another creature gone. The flipper belonged….is that that the right word, or perhaps part of would be better…..I have to be a bit careful here as I could easily get side tracked into a discourse on Fuzzy logic, re Bart Kosko….it’s an interesting read. Lets just say it is, to the best of my ability to identify it…. the flipper of a bottle nosed dolphin. What ever happened to the creature I will never know. But having that knowledge made me want to do….something with it. Commemorate it’s life or just to acknowledge something about this wonderful species. So I am going to, have in fact begun to…… include it into a painting.