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“Yr Awr Las” (Penmaenmawr; Wales)
Pencil, pastel pencil, and watercolor
2024
“The eyes of the watchers were cold and flat and incurious and the watchers were still. Whenever they moved — be it ever so slightly — there was a brief darkness, a shadow behind the leaves, a hint of something that humanity might call loss, equate with pain. But the watchers knew nothing of that, being indifferent to such matters.” —-Alice Thomas Ellis, “Fairy Tale”
Folks always express surprise when I, having been asked, tell them that my grandfather was Welsh. I’ve never inquired as to the particulars of what they THOUGHT a Welshman would look or act like. Most people (Americans) seem to have conflated Wales and Ireland, so I’ve borne sufficiently with supposed witticisms about leprechauns and pots o’ gold. It’s long been my habit (borne of either pride or just laziness) to forego correcting ignorant people. There rarely seems a point to be had in trying to fix what God has already made.,
That opening quotation is from Alice Thomas Ellis’s novel, “Fairy Tale”…….a grimly apt description of the Twyleth Teg (google them for an eye-opener), who set in motion the novel’s doings.