Joseph Palme Myers - paintings, drawings, prints

Scorpio with Shrimp Boats, Galveston

Gouache, 2001, 20"x14"

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I spent a couple of years traveling to Galveston on business.  After work I would often drive over to one of the more remote beaches and take a hike at night.  I found that the little lights out on the water moving back and forth near the horizon were shrimp boats.  One night I had a very clear view of Scorpio, a constellation I don’t get to see, at least so completely, in Georgia.  In this picture, the tail of Scorpio is below the horizon, but shrimp boats are juxtaposed where the stars would be.  I was playing a bit with the vision of stars falling into the sea.