The Mermaid is in the Edinburgh Museum collection.
Contrast the seascape, an idyll of gentle swells and sail boats littering the far horizon. The gaze lingers on this pleasing image but only briefly before the half pink, half fish horror captures the attention with an iron grip. What is the viewer to make of that open mouth, swollen lips, the dynamic pose forever frozen in a glass fronted box?
We can but imagine the psychosis from which this creature emerged. Is there not though, when the light falls just so, a sadness in those button eyes?
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