The Moon and the Pond
MOA: University of British Columbia
3309/20
Silkscreen print on square white paper. Circular white spindle whorl design with a square teal background. Layers of white ovals, teal trigons, red trigons and crescents, and grey crescents. Print 46/50 in series.
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Iconographic Meaning
Dylan Thomas, The Moon and the Pond, 2011, Acrylic on Canvas & Ink on Paper. This design was inspired by the Zen poet Takuan. “The moon has no intent to cast it’s shadow anywhere, nor does the pond design to lodge the moon. How serene the water of Hirosawa”. This poem points to a lesson of acceptance. The moon does not reject the pond nor does the pond reject the moon. They both simply are-with no intention or will from either of them, they create a profoundly beautiful scene. Human beings have a problem with acceptance. We suffer when we want what we cannot have or have what we do not want. We tend to reject ‘ugly’ things like death, when it is as natural as the ‘beauty’ of birth. When we learn to live as the moon and pond do, and reject nothing, we will live far happier lives.
- Type of Item print
- Culture Lyackson
- Measurements height 55.7 cm, width 55.7 cm (overall)
- Creator Dylan Thomas
- Previous Owner Christiane Smyth, George Smyth
- Received from Christiane Smyth, George Smyth
- Made in British Columbia
- Creation Date during 2011
- Ownership Date before July 16, 2018
- Acquisition Date on July 16, 2018
- Item Classes works on paper
- Condition excellent
- Accession Number 3309/0020