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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Two: Travel Incongruities > Royal advisor, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2009
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25-JUN-2009

Royal advisor, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2009

This animated black bird appears to be giving Her Majesty an earful. The royal response is predictably impassive. Statues are always hard of hearing. Upon such a fact, incongruities are based. Another coincidence sharpens the humor here. The birds sits on the end of the Queen’s scepter, her symbol of royal authority. The scepter is a symbolically perfect perch for the bird’s harangue. Both the bird and queen share coloration as well. The statue is black and so is the bird. The gray sky added still another monochromatic dimension, so I converted the image from color to black and white. The statue of Queen Victoria stands before British Columbia’s Parliament Building.

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Phil Douglis05-Jul-2009 00:03
The wonderful thing about art is its capacity for expressing many meanings. You see the Queen as listening, while I saw her as reacting impassively. It all depends on how we may choose to read the sculptor's art here.
Tim May04-Jul-2009 19:43
You see the Queen as being impassive, but for me the raised eyebrows indicate that the bird may be telling her of some palace intrigue.
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