Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
The Termite Princess acrylic painting that everyone loves!
I added another layer of oil glazes to this one (formerly known as popcorn princess), I was thinking of calling this one ‘the termite’ but that seems to have such a negative connotation so hence the working title it has right now, who knows what it will end up as! **update** well, after the generous comments of my artistic peers and Marlene‘s amazing (to me) revelation that termites were not universally despised (which is a good thing to contemplate as things in nature have a purpose and are therefore good, any problems with the "inherent goodness of nature" are those of human perception. http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/Marais1/whiteantch1-2.html -The Soul of the White Ant By Eugène N. Marais
EUGÈNE Marais was a South African poet, a story-teller, a journalist, a lawyer, a psychologist, a natural scientist, a drug-addict, and a great genius — an abused and forgotten genius, and the world is the worse off for that. He was master of a science that was only invented 50 years later (ethology); it was 60 years before anyone else attempted to study what he’d studied (ape societies in the wild); he described natural mechanisms and systems that were not identified by mainstream science until 40 years later (pheromones); and neither science nor society has yet caught up with many of his findings and conclusions. (read more about Eugène N. Marais by Keith Addison)
Many of us live in wooden houses so, out of need for shelter, the termite is vilified as a pest, but without a way to dispose of dead wood, the forests would become too cluttered for new life. Ahh the paradox of human life, we fight against the tide of entropy, often neglecting the beauty and wonder around us as we desperately struggle to keep things as they are.
The Termite (Popcorn) Princess – acrylic and oil paints on canvas by Darren Daz Cox
Originally posted 2007-09-25 06:14:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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