#572 La Parure De L’Orage

This is a landscape, even though
the sea is the backdrop & the front
is taken up by what looks like a red
wood floor. On which gather cut-
out characters, painted, but made 
to look like cut paper collage. Hard-
edged despite the indentations. Hard 
to tell which way they are looking, 
what they are there for. Gathered 
to observe the ocean, or gathered 
to talk among themselves while 
the wind whips around them & 
probably whips their words away? 
Or have they come to revel in dis-
aster? It's somewhat difficult to 
see, but there's a ship out there, 
wrecked by the violence of the 
storm, deposited onto the shore.