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Ava, Carlyle's +1 (now wife) approached me about doing a scroll for the now Sir Carlyle's Kraken. He had never received one. While I was working on it, we learned he would be Knighted. Given at Winter University 1 February 2020.
Photo by Ava Deinhardt
Calligraphy & Illumination
K ValravnRoxbury MillAtlantiaPoem
"Could any here Leviathan entrap or hook?No angler’s rod nor rope could tie its tongue, so whoAmong you now would pierce its jaw or face its look?Should Writhing Deep ask mercy, whisper softly, too?Live caged, a tropic bird in gentlewomen’s ear, Exchanged or sold by merchants, profits split in two?
Harpoon shafts on his twisting towers splinter sheer.No fishing lance could e’er the Kraken’s curtain breach;the crenellated beast, heart’s parchment inks with fear.
Dim resistance dies, a falsehood preachedBy murk-cloak’d eyes which, underwater, cloudYour senses. Past the beast’s dread surface, none can reach.
Should contemplating writhing Kraken shroudYour mind, how could you draw against its human form?Leviathan here stands, one Carlyle Jamesson, proud --So come, Atlantia’s foes, stare down a raging storm."
Lord Ishmael ReedRoxbury MillAtlantia
Poem Documentation
Type: Terza RimaStyle: DanteMaterials
Manuscript Fountain Pen, fine nib, & Ink for CalligraphyNatural color 8.5"x11" PergamenataArtwork Size
6" x 12.5"Assignment Date
5 May 2019Completion Date
27 November 2019Script
Textura QuadrataBastard CapitalsSource Image
The Last Judgment ca. 1440–41 by Jan van EyckTitle: The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Artist: Jan van Eyck (Netherlandish, Maaseik ca. 1390–1441 Bruges) and Workshop Assistant
Date: ca. 1440–41
Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood
Dimensions: Each 22 1/4 x 7 2/3 in. (56.5 x 19.7 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1933
Accession Number: 33.92ab
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