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RE: Let's Make a Collage #7: The Vikings
I like your seemingly simple approach to graphical elaboration. It's refreshing and new again. The programs equipped with the technical possibilities and the adaptation of the modern eye to almost perfect image processing demands a return or new edition of naive design.
So, so, you have Viking blood flowing through the veins of your ancestors. No wonder you wanted to learn German. Well, they're not quite their ancestors, but it's a bit obvious:)
The dolphins accompany the ships, they don't care who attacks whom here, they enjoy the bow waves and their wet element.
Hi Erika!
Thanks for taking a look at my effort. I really enjoy that assessment:
I have no skill in art. I imagine things I cannot produce, but that doesn't stop me from expressing in the best way I can. Naive, indeed.
As for my Viking blood. You know, we in the US are hybrids. Actually, everybody is, all over the world, but ours is more traceable. That ancestor, Thomas Baxter, was believed to be English. He turned into a Scot, and that ancestry turned into the northern reaches of Scotland (overrun by the Vikings) and Normandy (which was turned over to the Vikings in order to keep peace). The Vikings were just about everywhere, it turns out. Many people would be surprised to find they also have Viking blood in their veins.
I use my tracing as an excuse to explore history, one of my hobbies. There is actually very little German heritage in my background. 50% is Sicilian, and this is the culture that was most influential. Of course, I did learn that the Hohenstaufens and Normans, at different times, controlled Sicily. I will stop now... this can get tedious. I really do love history :))
Where is your collage?? Was hoping to see an entry from you.
Have a wonderful Sunday, though it may be over for you already.
Genealogy is really very useful and it opens very wide the personal perspective. It is often much more effective in its impact on ourselves, because the identification with historical events gets a more handy quality. I think everyone should deal with the ancestor line at least once in their life, if not much more frequently rather than always only in the historical events of the world, which in turn get much more to do with you once your own ancestors have been wrapped up.
So you and I are much closer, aren't we? As Americans, you can assume much more that there is something European to be found somewhere or other continental migrations such as from Russia or the Caucasus. The chance that my ancestors have Indian blood (the natives of the American continent) seems to me to be somehow smaller. But that can be deceiving, can't it?
The other day, in the episode of Startrek Discovery, the screenwriter had the brilliant idea to wrap the entire bridge crew in chaos because the Universal translator was defective. All of a sudden, Babel ruled and nobody understood the other colleague anymore. It was hilarious! In real life, of course, it's anything but funny, but I found this idea simply brilliant!
Imagine if we could talk in seven other languages besides English. How wonderful that would be. I envy everyone who speaks more than two languages.
Have you investigated any more details for Thomas Baxter? Who were those people you call your ancestors, do you know more about them on a personal level?
Characteristically wonderful response from Erika. I actually have tried to learn more languages. It's hard, in the US. Over the years I've studied Spanish and German well beyond any school requirements (even Latin, briefly). Have mastered none!😂
I love the Babel episode idea. Reminds me of Borges, really outstanding writer from Latin America. He wrote stories that tested boundaries--one of them was The Library of Babel.
Yes, ancestry can be deceiving, if we go back far, far, far into the past. Sicily was a crossroads. Everybody landed there :)
I do know a few Sicilian words, though 😁