On 01-26-98 David Martorana wrote to Day Brown... 
 DM>   Not sure if the following fits into your inquirious 
 DM>   sharing, but in painting, I have often employed anomalies 
 DM>   as tensions of search. As much of painting beyond the 
 DM>   dream of capture, is mechanical, there is much time to 
 DM>   reach for the GRAPHIC unknowable and much of this is the 
 DM>   application of anomalous experiment. This can be done by 
 DM>   introducing raw alien elements or even suggestions of such. 
 DM>   
 DM>   SAMPLE: I once did a painting of two galleons near touching 
 DM>   in their epic moment of battle. While experimenting with the 
 DM>   sails, I reversed the wind for one ship and the boiling sea 
 DM>   beneath it. This created a vortex (total anomaly to the 
 DM>   scene) from the sea to the top flag and even to the clouds 
 DM>   above, bringing them all into the battle. When shown at a 
 DM>   local art show it created a stunning interest. It ranged from 
 DM>   those trying to figure how it could be, to those more poetic 
 DM>   souls wishing it could. Another version painted natural was 
 DM>   appreciated, but with much less enthusiasm. 
 
Beautiful!  reminds me of Themistles' Triremes against the Persian 
tubs at Salamis.  Although, my source says they did not use sails 
at all during battle; only oars... so you have presented another 
anomaly?  A telling difference between the Greeks & Romans in that 
the latter didn't use galley slaves on a trireme; Themistocles saw 
the advantage Americans see in a trained force, and Greeks had the 
biggest strongest dudes on the oars they could find, who could do 
0 to 6 knots in 6 seconds with a 150 foot warship that could also 
spin on a dime, and literally do circles around the Persian tubs, 
which they sank like shooting fish in a barrel. musta been fun. 
 
In a sense this was another anomaly to Xerxes who had a front row 
seat on his throne on a headland, and no doubt had some trouble 
believing his eyes. 
 
In any case, yours or mine, it makes a damn good story, and that 
is reason enough for existence. 
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