No Man Is An Island - St Michael's Mount
by Mark Tisdale
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No Man Is An Island - St Michael's Mount
Artist
Mark Tisdale
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Photograph - Photo Art
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One of the great things about spending years building up a library of images is that when inspiration strikes, there's often a picture to work with. Such was the case when the John Donne quote "No man is an island" crossed my mind this morning. This is a quote I've always liked. Although centuries old, it speaks profoundly of how in society we are all from top to bottom dependent on each other.
Seconds after thinking that I wanted to do a piece that subtly included Donne's words, it occurred to me I had the perfect series of pictures from the Cornish seaside. It was a moody morning when we stood on the beach and looked across at St. Michael's Mount, but that seemed even more fitting somehow for such a deep quote to be writ in the very skies...
For those who have not read the full passage but would like to:
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
Devotions upon emergent occasions and seuerall steps in my sicknes - Meditation XVII, 1624
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February 28th, 2013
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