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Nature's Trophy 6: Trophy from the Deep

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 Nature's Trophy 6: 
Trophy from the Deep

"Nature's trophy a wake up call - not victory;
no one wins in a quagmire but victims all
in our troubled world  we further destroy,
wonder from here where goes our soul." -avr


Dr Abe V Rotor 
 Trophy from the Deep is made of driftwood recovered from the sea, and mounted on a block of narra wood.  Trophy and mural background made by AV Rotor, 2020., on display at the Living with Nature Center, author's residence in San Vicente Ilocos Sur 
 
 
Four views of Trophy from the Deep AVR 2020
 Closeup of the reconstructed specimen  
"The oyster or the pearl, necessity or luxury?
Man's affluence is Mother Earth's agony," avr 
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Trophy from the Deep
Dr Abe V Rotor 

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

Quote from Thomas Gray's famous Elegy* -
passionate, nostalgic, in sweet irony
of life at the edge of forgetfulness,
the past preserved in the art of poetry.

Change has brought a new meaning to us;
sentimentality aside, action on call;
to wake the sleeping gem, to save the flower,
else mankind is doomed to a second Fall.

Nature's trophy a wake up call - not victory;
no one wins in a quagmire but victims all
in our troubled world we further destroy,
wonder from here where goes our soul.

*Thomas Gray, Elegy on a Country Churchyard 1750


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