Once again, I’m late in announcing the week’s auction, Crumpets with the Queen, but at least you have the weekend to contemplate Robbi’s latest composition, visualizing it on your various walls, seeing in your mind’s eye how it might look atop the piano, nestled between those portraits of Nana and Uncle Horace.
If art is a reflection of life, than we can only assume that Robbi had a rough week, or at least a strange one. Perhaps you are thinking that this illustration is some sort of metaphor: the queen representing the tyranny of the ruling classes and the polar bear the common man rising up to take a stand. Perhaps, perhaps. But I don’t think so. In Robbi’s mind, a queen is but a tasty snack and a polar bear but a hungry carnivore. It’s the penguin that intrigues me. I cannot tell if he’s embarrassed, surprised, or amused, and frankly, I’m not sure it really matters.
What’s true is that this illustration is a telling depiction of my life with Robbi. It reminds me that should always try to make sure that she is well fed whenever we sit down for a cup of tea.
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Some days you eat the bear, and some days the bear eats you. Peaks and valleys, ups and downs, yin and yang, etc..
The penguin is Robbi…watching Robbi, the self stepping outside of the self, in a beauteous moment of realization that this too, shall pass. Ahem…um…ohm…
The queen, the polar bear, the penguin and the crumpets must be at the zoo. Where else would one see a polar bear and a penguin in the same place?
Ahh too bad the bear spilled that tea – he could’ve finished his meal with a nice cup of warming liqiud!!