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![Two figures looking out over the seashore and boat out at sea..](/img/asset/bWFpbi9vdXQtaW4tdGhlLWRhcmtlbmluZy1zZWEyMDIzLW9pbC1vbi13b29kLmpwZw==/out-in-the-darkening-sea2023-oil-on-wood.jpg?p=900w&fit=max&s=c1600ea141e80e203aa9e9a7ac74d9db)
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Out of a Darkening Sea
2023
Dimensions in centimetres
height12.7 × width17.7 cm
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Dimensions in inches
height5 × width6 ″
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![Two figures looking out over the seashore and boat out at sea..](/img/asset/bWFpbi9vdXQtaW4tdGhlLWRhcmtlbmluZy1zZWEyMDIzLW9pbC1vbi13b29kLmpwZw==/out-in-the-darkening-sea2023-oil-on-wood.jpg?p=360w&fit=max&s=8661d325e0b66b45cf3dc5cec56f700c)
Out of a Darkening Sea is a metaphor in miniature. A sailing boat mysteriously appears from the indigo dark ocean, almost like the Flying Dutchman in Wagner’s early doom-laden opera. Here things are less traumatic I feel. The yacht, as a portent, has a positive reading for each of the figures on the shoreline looking out to the horizon. - TH