yeah youre a fisherman...ive found that most people who fish , are great people...i can never catch anything from the rocks except the rocks when i fish, maybe thats why i go out on a charter boat (and still i dont catch much)
The heart fish, the flesh- a lot of potential for the visceral meeting the conceptual. I used to be an obsessive fisher of freshwater rivers and lakes in Texas but I found when I moved to coastal S. Carolina that I'm no good in saltwater. But while casting for shrimp I would catch all these little fry of the ocean species that breed in the estuaries and freeze some so I could draw them. Then it dawned on me I could keep them in an aquarium and draw them alive, so I started wading out at night when the water was calmest with a miner's lamp and a little aquarium net and I collected some of the coolest creatures, pipefish, puffers, seastars, zebrafish, searobins.... Pretty soon I had a 60 gallon tank. The most interesting creature I had was a ctenophore that navigated itself around the tank with bioluminescent flagellae, like something out of Close Encounters.
yeah youre a fisherman...ive found that most people who fish , are great people...i can never catch anything from the rocks except the rocks when i fish, maybe thats why i go out on a charter boat (and still i dont catch much)
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ReplyDeleteThe heart fish, the flesh- a lot of potential for the visceral meeting the conceptual. I used to be an obsessive fisher of freshwater rivers and lakes in Texas but I found when I moved to coastal S. Carolina that I'm no good in saltwater. But while casting for shrimp I would catch all these little fry of the ocean species that breed in the estuaries and freeze some so I could draw them. Then it dawned on me I could keep them in an aquarium and draw them alive, so I started wading out at night when the water was calmest with a miner's lamp and a little aquarium net and I collected some of the coolest creatures, pipefish, puffers, seastars, zebrafish, searobins.... Pretty soon I had a 60 gallon tank. The most interesting creature I had was a ctenophore that navigated itself around the tank with bioluminescent flagellae, like something out of Close Encounters.
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