Tell me
Disclosure
O Tell me, You Sirenes
smooth-talkers
story-tellers
librarians, historians
note-takers, form-fillers
notaries public,
priests;
keepers of secret names,
Tell me, You sweet-voiced intermediaries
You, who orchestrate circumstance
draw circumference of worlds
social workers
(birds of prey)
tell me.
Here I am, bare-breasted, tied to the mast.
Me, who turned the tricks of Circe
who taking sound advice
avoids enchantment
who dreams of changing pigs to men.
With honey, hemp, and wax in the ears
of my fateful companions
by my chosen companions
I am tied.
I am tied to the mast by love & trust
by my own volition. Tied
I can’t jump ship
must listen.
Now
Tell me
What is shame
What is honour.
What’s my name?
Disclosure
O Tell me, You Sirenes
smooth-talkers
story-tellers
librarians, historians
note-takers, form-fillers
notaries public,
priests;
keepers of secret names,
Tell me, You sweet-voiced intermediaries
You, who orchestrate circumstance
draw circumference of worlds
social workers
(birds of prey)
tell me.
Here I am, bare-breasted, tied to the mast.
Me, who turned the tricks of Circe
who taking sound advice
avoids enchantment
who dreams of changing pigs to men.
With honey, hemp, and wax in the ears
of my fateful companions
by my chosen companions
I am tied.
I am tied to the mast by love & trust
by my own volition. Tied
I can’t jump ship
must listen.
Now
Tell me
What is shame
What is honour.
What’s my name?
In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus, the inventor of the Trojan Horse, seduces Circe and makes her change his crew back from pig to human form.
The Odyssey brought Home: Circe the Enchantress with pigs
Newspaper sculpture with thread, crab shell, paint. 13" h
Homecoming / Odyssey, Circe the Enchantress
at Botanical Beach, Vancouver Island BC
at Botanical Beach, Vancouver Island BC
inside the bowel
Photo dramas
& poems
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from the series raising funds for Supper Bowels at the Empress
"Mon Voyage" Homecoming / The Odyssey _
Ceramics, worked like an intaglio etching
"Voyage between Skylla & Charybdis"
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"Voyage to Beautiful Naasika"
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"Voyage for Polyphemos the Cyclops"
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"Odysseus Singer of his own Song"
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"Blind Homer, conjures in Concentric Rings
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Homecoming / Odyssey
High fired clay, incised, burnished, and glazed with iron oxide.
13" diameter x 3" high (33 x 7.5 cm) Clay body by Toby Howell
The beautiful body was wheel-made by Toby Howell in her signature style at her Clay Studio at Xchanges, Victoria.
One of a series of 3 Platters on Homecoming / The Odyssey
Two others raised funds for the charity "Super Bowls", Empress Hotel, Victoria.
Inside the Bowl
The central figure is Odysseus.
His shape was derived from Matthias Grunewald's glowing Christ figure in the Isenheim Altarpiece (c 1510)
The Salt shaker referes to the salty seas, and to Posidon,(in a kind of pun), The Earthshaker, Odysseus's main enemy.
The Spiral, reflected in the body markings of the bowl, is the whirlpool Charybdis.
This refers to Odysseus's having to navigate his ship's way between two terrors: Skylla, the 6 headed monster and the loss of 6 men, or the black whirlpool of Charybidis and loss of all his men and his ship.
This is "being between a rock and a hard place".
The Arrow is the fire-hardened spear with which Odysseus blinded the Cylops, and also the idea of making direction.
The phrase "Moi, J'ai eu mon voyage", translates as "Me, I've had my trip", or "Now I've seen everything", an appropriate colloquialism.
Outside the Bowl
The words Wind and Water are inscribed in the 4 cardinal directions.
13" diameter x 3" high (33 x 7.5 cm) Clay body by Toby Howell
The beautiful body was wheel-made by Toby Howell in her signature style at her Clay Studio at Xchanges, Victoria.
One of a series of 3 Platters on Homecoming / The Odyssey
Two others raised funds for the charity "Super Bowls", Empress Hotel, Victoria.
Inside the Bowl
The central figure is Odysseus.
His shape was derived from Matthias Grunewald's glowing Christ figure in the Isenheim Altarpiece (c 1510)
The Salt shaker referes to the salty seas, and to Posidon,(in a kind of pun), The Earthshaker, Odysseus's main enemy.
The Spiral, reflected in the body markings of the bowl, is the whirlpool Charybdis.
This refers to Odysseus's having to navigate his ship's way between two terrors: Skylla, the 6 headed monster and the loss of 6 men, or the black whirlpool of Charybidis and loss of all his men and his ship.
This is "being between a rock and a hard place".
The Arrow is the fire-hardened spear with which Odysseus blinded the Cylops, and also the idea of making direction.
The phrase "Moi, J'ai eu mon voyage", translates as "Me, I've had my trip", or "Now I've seen everything", an appropriate colloquialism.
Outside the Bowl
The words Wind and Water are inscribed in the 4 cardinal directions.
Homecoming Odyssey Photodramas & Poems
"Circe The Enchantress, and the swine"