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"Far Away"
Frank McNab, 2009, acrylics on canvas. 40 x 50cm
Elderpark above Thermopylae. Leonidas
can be seen in the distance on one of the peaks of the Gates of Fire waiting for
the sun to come up. This painting is all about the ability of our minds to free
us from any constraint. Leonidas and the Spartans believed the best thing which
could possibly happen to them was to die for their society:
"Go
tell the Spartans, Passerby,
That
here, obedient to their laws,We
lie."
Simonides
So the shipyards and tenements around Elderpark can be
replaced by idyllic landscape. If you believe it.
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