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An Augustinian Awakening Is London's Hotel Ritz under water or sandwiched between fish tank in front and a whale aquarium in the back? Are the conductor and musicians playing Handel's Water Music, Schubert's Trout Quintet, or Hovhaness' And God Created Great Whales? In the grand ballroom two couples are waltzing, two birds flying above the floor, while wolves watch a biker and his ghost double ride away. Is the artist in Café Florian or looking at it pondering the fishes or the two dark figures he's drawing? At the table behind him is Colette in deep reverie while her companion strikes a match to light her cigarette. Are we inside Colette's and her cat's interior dreams with the choir boys leaving as though religion is exiting this world? At the far left Venetian gondolas float on the floor— are these rescue vessels for the oncoming flood at end times? Suddenly, Augustine's awakening— hexagonal beehive floor tiles hint at God's six days of creation that's perfect. We're in sacred space and Biblical times— five musicians' soundings of water bringing forth the whales on creation's fifth day to the two witnesses of Revelations that the Age of Pisces is yielding to the Aquarian Age purifying us all with seventeen fishes symbolizing Simon Peter's catch at Galilee— his unbroken net full of 153 fishes. — Peter Y. Chou Mountain View, 8-12-2009 |
 Peter Milton, Interiors VI: Soundings (1989) |