08/10/03

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It's an Ibis ... it's a Stork ... it's a Boid.

Well ... it has a beak and I think it has wings and in
my book that pretty much makes it a bird of some sort.

If it's an Ibis--according to Egyptian myth--it symbolizes
the winged dawn ... the flight of the soul ... the destroyer
of reptiles ... the sun which rides The Boat of a Million Years
across the heavens. Then again the Ibis is a water bird which
makes it Lunar as well as Solar. By golly ... it's a hermaphrodite
.... Lunar and Solar phase speaking.

But ... but but but ... what if it's a Stork ... symbol of
good omen and fertility. Let's not forget it brought babies
into the world long before doctors dreamt up cesareans. On
an aside--how did the medical profession come up with cesarean
as a name for pulling a baby out of the abdomen like that? Was
Caesar really a doctor ... and we've been reading all the wrong
history books? A ride on a stork's back as a boy enters this
world denotes the fact that he's a good little boy. A ride in
his bill ... the kid's naughty. Now I ask you ... is there a
one amongst you who has ever seen an image of a stork bringing
a babe into the world astride its back? Does this mean all
babies are born to be naughty. Hmmm? Then there's the belief
that storks can become people and people can become storks ...
so when you view the brooch you'll soon be viewing ... decide
for yourselves if it's a stork ... or the neighbor next door.

But what if it's a Phoenix? I say this with great safety because
I venture to think nary a soul out there knows what a Phoenix
looks like. Here's the thing with the Phoenix. It builds its
nest of myrrh and then dies. Its decaying flesh produces a worm
and this worm sprouts feathers and then carries its parent
bones to the temple of Ra and a new Phoenix is created to
return and start the whole thing over again. No need for sex
to reproduce here folks. A clever flying worm does the whole
thing.

So where does all this ambiguity leave us? It leaves us with
Peter Chang who--in 1992--created a gorgeous brooch made with
various plastic elements and lacquer and polished to a high
sheen. A psychedelic masterpiece showing once again that it
ain't all gold and gems that make for beauty.


For those of you who are new to this thing called Tidbits...may I
direct you to my home page at www.tyler-adam.com where you will scroll
down the left side menu till you get to the area that says Tidbits
Graphics ... and then click on the link that says: Boid ... where
you'll see an image of Peter Chang's delightful brooch.
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