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Bloomsday - June 16th - is an annual celebration among Joyce fans throughout the world, from Fort Lauderdale to Melbourne. It is celebrated in at least sixty countries worldwide, but nowhere so imaginatively, of course, as in Dublin. The novel, Ulysses, by James Joyce recounts the hour-by-hour events of one day in Dublin - June 16, 1904 - as an ordinary Dubliner, Leopold Bloom, wends his way through the urban landscape, the odyssey of a modern-day Ulysses. This year celebrates the 100th anniversary. ReJoyce Dublin 2004!
 
This painting is from James Joyce's caricature of Leopold Bloom, drawn in Myron Nutting's studio in the 1920's. c2004.
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The Golden Section is a well-known numerical ratio. If the sides of a rectangle have this ratio, it means that the smaller is to the larger as the larger is to the sum of both. Numerically it is approx. 1.618034, or it's inverse 0.618034. Note the exact difference of 1 between these two numbers! It can also be defined as the solution to the quadratic equation x to the power of 2 -x -1 =0.
 
This ratio also shows up in the so-called Fibonacci Series. 
This is a sequence of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers: 1 1 2 3 5 8 13
The ratio of two successive numbers in this sequence approximates the Golden Section.
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The original watercolor painting is my interpretation of the first recorded re-enactment of Bloomsday on 16th June 1954, when five men got together in Dublin to attempt to trace the steps of some of the characters in Ulysses, on 16th June 1904, from James Joyce's novel.

The five were Anthony Cronin, writer; Paddy Kavanagh, poet; John Ryan, author and publican; Brian O'Nolan, (aka Myles Na gCopalleen/ Flann O'Brien), comic author and satirist and a dentist named Joyce. These paintings are based on a photograph of them taken on Sandymount strand.

They were unable to complete the full pilgrimage.

This painting is now offered as a giclee print edition of 25, hand signed and numbered by the Artist, sent rolled and ready for framing.
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The image refers to the bronze statute at the top of North Earl Street in Dublin, Ireland, affectionately referred to locally as "the prick with the stick" by the irreverent. The hal'penny bridge is hinted at to encapsulate the Dubliness. I have also included the symbol of James Joyce as painted by the famous Artist of the 1920's Constan Brancusi.

This is a limited edition of 25 giclee prints of the original paintings, each signed and numbered by the artist and sent rolled and ready for framing.
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The watercolour painting is taken from the wedding photograph of Nora Barnacle Joyce on 4th July, 1931. She is emerging from Kensington Registry Office having married James Joyce (1882-1941), with whom she had lived in an inseparable and amazingly devoted and loving relationship for 28 years. They had two children, Georgia and Lucia at this time. In the background from left to right are effigies of James Joyce taken, firstly, from a photograph of him outside Sylvia Beach's shop, Shakespeare & Co in the Rue de l'Odeon in Paris in 1921; secondly from a photo of  Joyce taken in his friend C.P Curran's back garden in 1904 and finally from the bronze statute at the top of North Earl Street in Dublin.
This is a limited edition of 25 giclee prints of the original paintings, each signed and numbered by the artist and sent rolled and ready for framing.
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This painting is my interpretation of this expression of James Joyce's (1882-1941) as spoken by Stephen Dedalus as he walks on his way from Dalkey towards Dublin in the novel, "Ulysses" in chapter 3. 

Sandymount Strand is tidal and when the tide goes out very far and one does not look to left or right one gets the feeling of total isolation with only the sky meeting the horizon in the far distance. In 1904 this whole area was quite bleak and appeared to go on for ever.
This painting is now offered as a giclee print edition of 25, hand signed and numbered by the Artist, sent rolled and ready for framing.
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