Ship of Fools
giclee on rag paper
image size- 18″ x 18″
This painting shows a masked figure (the vessel) and the plague doctor. It describes the human condition. We are all fools aboard this vessel, but the God of the universe is with us.
Ship of Fools
$350.00
Description
A masked figure and the Medieval plague doctor form the basis for a painting about the human condition, fools aboard a vessel put to sea.
The fear of the “virus,” differing views of its treatment, and the relinquishing of freedoms to “The Science,” has been sad and divisive. The human condition does not lean to compassion and love, but foolishness.
Thankfully one figure stands out. His hands compassionately hold the face of another. He “well knows the pograms of fools, (Suzanne Rhodes, Sunday Service at The Home for the Incurables.) My painting also brings to mind the “Ship of Fools” painted by Medieval artist, Hieronymus Bosch, who said, “Which one of us does not sail in the wretched discomfort of the ship of human folly?”
We feel a hateful kinship with them. The Ship of Fools is not about other people, it is about us.
