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Neither fish nor fowl / Leha lithlapi leha e le nonyana

2016 Competition entry

Dina Grobler

Details:
Signed
Etching on fabriano
28 cm x 40 cm

Description:

Here the “church vessel” is in uncertain waters, exposed to the stormy sea and the elements of nature; yet anchored in another transcendent universe.

The keel of the ship has the form of the face of a “fisher of men.” The Prophet catches the fish with his words but the fish stabs the prophet’s eye with its sharp tail fin. All are caught up in the endless cyclical journey at sea.

Who is ultimately steering the ship? Heaven, the church, the Prophet or the Fish?