Nature's Trophy from the Deep

Nature's Trophy from the Deep

"Nature's trophy a wake up call - not victory;

no one wins in a quagmire but victims all

in our troubled world we further destroy,

wonder from here where goes our soul." -avr

Dr Abe V Rotor

 

Trophy from the Deep is made of driftwood recovered from the sea, and mounted on a block of old narra wood. Trophy and mural background made by AV Rotor, 2020., on display at the Living with Nature Center, author's residence in San Vicente Ilocos Sur

Four views of Nature's Trophy from the Deep AVR 2020

Closeup of the reconstructed specimen

"The oyster or the pearl, necessity or luxury?

Man's affluence is Mother Earth's agony," avr

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Trophy from the Deep

Dr Abe V Rotor

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,

The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,

And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

Quote from Thomas Gray's famous Elegy* -

passionate, nostalgic, in sweet irony

of life at the edge of forgetfulness,

the past preserved in the art of poetry.

Change has brought a new meaning to us;

sentimentality aside, action on call;

to wake the sleeping gem, to save the flower,

else mankind is doomed to a second Fall.

Nature's trophy a wake up call - not victory;

no one wins in a quagmire but victims all

in our troubled world we further destroy,

wonder from here where goes our soul.

*Thomas Gray, Elegy on a Country Churchyard 1750