Sleep:OTI::pics,notes:::10/21/20

Open To Interpretation

#inktober twenty one

Sleep

Wedge, Balboa

Notes: out and back to the Wedge, Balboa...thought about inktober prompt "Sleep" on the way, imagined sleeping Buddha, and, and put Buddha atop the breakwater at the Wedge!...overcast, so no Sunset Spotlight...now, couple posts back, Lobster, researching references for Lobster, half men half lobster, I found there was such in Greek Mythology...brb...

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A "Birth of Venus (Aphrodite)" mosaic unearthed at Zeugma, Turkey shows Aphrodite emerging from a shell, supported by two "sea-centaurs", construed as special names for Tritons, according to a paper published by the leader of the French excavation team.^[14] The mosaics bear inscriptions, identifying the sea-centaurs as Aphros ("Sea-Foam", personified) and Bythos ("Sea-Depths").^[14]

The Aphros is shown with a pair of lobster-like appendages growing out of his head,^[14][b] as is Bythos (see images).^[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyocentaurs

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Aphros and Bythos....and, and I took a looksee at that Birth of Venus link...brb...

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In 1913 the British archaeologist John Myres was on the coast near Paphos in winter. Watching the sea, he saw the wind blow two breakers together

When the angle of impact is about 90°, ‘the “break” is both concentrated within a small width of swell, and very violent, so that the breaker shoots up in a column like a water-spout, 10-15 feet high, and falls back in an outward cascade of foam which may be carried some feet to leeward by the wind. It looks exactly like a human figure literally “rising from the sea” and spreading long hair and dripping arms.^[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Anadyomene

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that, that's what happens with the waves at the Wedge...at first a swell will break/meet the breakwater rocks, then it will rebound back, reforming...thenabout, it meets an incoming swell/break, and, whoosh...a skimboarder gets rocketed up...what Rocket was about...what the kids do is run like crazy down the steep beach...throw the board forward, hop on, and their momentum carries them over flat water to where that first wave is rebounding...this they catch, and ride it into the much bigger incoming swell/break...simple when seen, not so simple to describe!...Aliso Beach has this phenomena too!...at the very spot I did my plein airs of the Palace!...oh, I haven't eaten all day...time for a snack...Dodgers were getting wooped...brb...they have slim chance...Rays 6-3...eighth inning...bbk with report...Rays 6-4...

:)

DavidDavid