The Sea Of Ice
Nov. 15th, 2023 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Ailz read me Suella Braverman's "leaked" letter to Rishi Sunak. "That's not politics as usual," I said, "It's a coup in the making."
Later I was out walking and thinking things over when this image jumped into my head. It's by Caspar David Friedrich and dates from almost exactly two hundred years ago. It shows a ship being crunched up and eaten by arctic ice.
Friedrich never seems to have settled on a title There are several available- and the one I favour is "The Sea of Ice". I first encountered it as "The Wreck of Hope", but I think that's too prescriptive. You can't tie an image like this- iconic, dreamlike- to a single meaning- and all I'm going to say about it is I think it fits our times...
Later I was out walking and thinking things over when this image jumped into my head. It's by Caspar David Friedrich and dates from almost exactly two hundred years ago. It shows a ship being crunched up and eaten by arctic ice.
Friedrich never seems to have settled on a title There are several available- and the one I favour is "The Sea of Ice". I first encountered it as "The Wreck of Hope", but I think that's too prescriptive. You can't tie an image like this- iconic, dreamlike- to a single meaning- and all I'm going to say about it is I think it fits our times...
