Mermaid Mother

by Carol Jacobs

Title

Mermaid Mother

Artist

Carol Jacobs

Medium

Digital Art - Digital

Description

Fish Story - My Magical Mermaid Mother -This portrait of my mother in her early twenties was inspired by a little snapshot from the 1930's showing my parents standing at the edge of the Lake of the Ozarks. My mother is wearing an amazing long striped skirt and my father is holding up a large fish. This was long before I was born. I saw this picture many times over the years and after looking and looking, it seemed to me there was something fishy about that fish. I decided that it was totally a fake fish, a picture prop. I found this very funny, but for some reason I never asked my mother about it. Somehow as the painting developed, my father got painted out, my mother turned into a mermaid rather incongruously holding a large (definitely fake) fish, the old rowboat got turned right-side up, the lake and hills have disappeared, leaving my mermaid mother and her boat (No, I don't know why a mermaid needs a boat) floating in the night sky. It seems like quite a fish story, but I swear, every bit of it is true.

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January 3rd, 2015

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