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About the print

Lost in The Waves

A Giclee Print on Hahnemühle museum grade archival paper.

Sizes shown are the print paper size with a white one inch border.

30 x 40cm / 12 x 16 inches.

40 x 50cm / 16 x 20 inches.

All prints are shipped by tracked post. Large prints are sent in a roll to avoid damage during shipment if not framed.

Lost in the Waves

To me, this painting shows how a stormy sea can reflect the feeling of being overwhelmed in life, like being swept up in the middle of it all with no clear direction. The axes under the sea represent a hidden Bronze Age hoard found at Killaha East in Kerry, and they also stand for the emotional weapons we bury deep inside ourselves.

A Poem

Sacred or special, the alloy made with Ross Island copper, the strongest of ores,
Mixed with Cornwall tin, made the best Bronze of the Age.

Transported from the shores of the Head of the Sea to the wide-known world,
These treasures have no record inscribed upon a vellum page.

The axes, spearheads and knives, or magnificent swords,
Persisting through the stormy waves of history.

Whether carefully deposited to thank the Water Gods of lake and sea,
Or falling to the depths on a dangerous journey, remains a mystery.

These treasures re-emerge with the movement of labour or tides,
Man ever-widening the pathways with the making of roads.

Or the water over centuries uncovers by flows,
Moving pebbles and sand in impossible loads.

Were the Gods pleased with the offerings, or were they meant to be found?
How many other hoards are waiting there in the dark?

Hidden from the present, keeping stories from the past,
Like the patterns of decoration, they tell of settlers who left their mark.

by S.A.