GIRL WITH A PIGEON ON HER HEAD
GIRL WITH A PIGEON ON HER HEAD is an 8x6 framed, limited edition signed print made with a vintage b&w photo of—get ready for it— a GIRL with a pigeon on HER head. I colorized the photo and collaged it with an adaptation of a painting of pigeons by the Chinese artist Zhang Shuqui (1900-1957.)
Actually, the girl might be represent a figure both folkloric and biblical, and not a cute family photo. She’s most likely portraying the legendary Queen Semiramis as a young girl. The Queen was founder of Babylon. Her name meant “dove of the fields.” She was nursed by them as a child and somehow later the birds waged war. See the Bible Chapter 25, The Prophecy of Jeremiah. It’s complicated with warnings about the wrath of the dove and God.
“The word of the Lord hath come to me,” Jeremiah said. The Lord said, “I have spoken to you and you have not hearkened. I will destroy them, and make of them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness. “
So, the land is laid to waste because of the wrath of the dove and the fierce anger of the Lord. And Queen Semiramis, too. Who might have been an Amazon. But I digress.
Perhaps the embedded lesson is: “beware of provoking the wrath of a woman, and indeed of anyone of a gentle nature, for those inclined to gentleness are those whose resentment is considered the most difficult to appease and the most formidable, once their patience has been exhausted.”
I think that point has been reached. We've run out of patience. There is a very loud hissing from those of us inclined to gentleness. #jeremiah #queensemiramis #babylon #foundphoto #dove #pigeon #zhangshuqui #peterjketchum #ketchumart #artspanprint
Actually, the girl might be represent a figure both folkloric and biblical, and not a cute family photo. She’s most likely portraying the legendary Queen Semiramis as a young girl. The Queen was founder of Babylon. Her name meant “dove of the fields.” She was nursed by them as a child and somehow later the birds waged war. See the Bible Chapter 25, The Prophecy of Jeremiah. It’s complicated with warnings about the wrath of the dove and God.
“The word of the Lord hath come to me,” Jeremiah said. The Lord said, “I have spoken to you and you have not hearkened. I will destroy them, and make of them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness. “
So, the land is laid to waste because of the wrath of the dove and the fierce anger of the Lord. And Queen Semiramis, too. Who might have been an Amazon. But I digress.
Perhaps the embedded lesson is: “beware of provoking the wrath of a woman, and indeed of anyone of a gentle nature, for those inclined to gentleness are those whose resentment is considered the most difficult to appease and the most formidable, once their patience has been exhausted.”
I think that point has been reached. We've run out of patience. There is a very loud hissing from those of us inclined to gentleness. #jeremiah #queensemiramis #babylon #foundphoto #dove #pigeon #zhangshuqui #peterjketchum #ketchumart #artspanprint