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A Smooth Sea Never Made a Killed Sailor (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by doodgelukkig to c/artshare

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's one peculiar albatross, I like it.

[–] doodgelukkig 5 points 9 months ago

It's a cormorant. There's a lot of them by the water where I live.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I think that's a snake bird.

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edit: unearned confidence got me again

[–] doodgelukkig 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I used a cormorant as reference, but they do look a lot alike. Didn't know these kind of bird. They look very cool!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, it's a really nice piece! I should've waited until I was fully awake before posting 😞

It made me think about that porm "rhyme of the old mariner", where sailors were stuck on a calm sea (no wind at all, I'm not sure what's the real sailing term for that).

I don't remember the full details, but a guy killed an albatross and got cursed for that. They hung the albatross around his neck as a sign of the curse.

Thus, bird + dead ship made me think of that story!

[–] doodgelukkig 2 points 9 months ago

Thank you very much 😊 Someone else mentioned this poem as well! I'm gonna listen to it when drawing tonight. Ian McKellan reads it in this video

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Dead calm sea is common in the area of the equatorial atlantic called the doldrums