I love this gloomy piece which evolved under my eyes. My visual memory was jerked by the beginnings of the hunched up figure and I found the image I recalled in a book about Gauguin (hero!) with a photo of a Peruvian mummy. I have always loved the poem by Stevie Smith – hence the title.
Maybe all the horrifying stories of drownings in the Mediterranean influenced me as well. We can never know all the subconscious themes.
Image 10×8 inches (25.5×20 cm).
credmayne 
Wonderful! I love to imagine the players in the piece. What is their life like? What struggles have played out in blink of time that is their life? Very nice piece! I love Gauguin as well. We had a retrospective of his work here a few years ago.