‘What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.’
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor [1848-1907]
It was seeing this quote in an iPhone app that inspired Garlic is for Heroes, which I created with a photograph from Wikimedia and a texture overlay from, yes, 2 Lil’ Owls. It was an interesting reversal of my usual method where a visual idea comes first. I was so taken with the quote, I had to do something with garlic!
Augustus Saint-Gaudens by De Witt C. Ward via Wikimedia Commons.
Saint-Gaudens, of whom I had not previously heard, was a sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who is said to have embodied the ideals of the ‘American Renaissance’. Wikipedia
I have taken my title from another quote, this time one by our old friend Anonymous who once said, “Shallots are for babies; onions are for men; garlic is for heroes.” Foodreference.com
Take care and keep laughing!
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I don’t think that I could live without garlic. I eat at least one entire bulb a day. Ok, who wants to snog me now??! 😉
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I’m ready for my snog, Puffin!
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Garlic – one of life’s essentials!
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Sure is!
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yes indeed…love the image:)
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Much thanks, Janet.
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Love the image and the quote!
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Thank you!
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OK, I love the quote too, and it got my mind ” a buzzin”, Is a Garlic Salad the thing to feed to a surprise party of Russian gangsters who arrive unannounced at your house for a supper party, or would the flavours make them reach for their weapons? As always, a great and imaginative image
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Thank you, Peter, and I suggest you should do some detailed research as the story sounds intriguing and amusing! As always.
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It should be “a garlic pod a day helps keep the doctor away.”
(-: Lovely work of art!
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Bless yer, Sherry
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Reblogged this on First Night Design and commented:
I’m considering my own version of ‘Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell’, as printed in The Spectator whenever the late journalist had been rather too drunk or hungover to write his Low Life column. Mine will have to be shorthand for truly being unwell rather than drunk (I say this while slurping a Bailey’s at ten past midnight)! In the meantime, nothing new has been diagnosed and no new art created to display. This is one from the past that I’m very fond off.
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Love this post, Sarah. Congrats on your gorgeous design.
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Thank you, Cynthia!
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