Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2004- Northstar Gallery

Several of this year's digital images are posted and others will be posted in the next few weeks, please check back

For those of you interested in why so many people are drawn to mermaids and their powerful symbolic and historical role, you might want to check out "Mermaids - Symbols of Transformation" on this web site. You might also be interested in taking a look at my current project "Of Flesh and Stone" which explores the role of sensuality and the classic female figure in memorial art in Rome, Paris, Milan and Moscow, "Of Flesh and Stone"

If you are in some of these images and would like a copy please email me with your address and I will send you a file. If you are included in the gallery and would rather not be please let me know and I will remove the image.

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Enjoy

Mermaid

by Walter de la Mare

Leagues, leagues over the sea I sail
Couched on a wallowing dolphin's tail.

The sky is on fire, the waves a-sheen,
I dabble my foot in the billows green.

In a sea-weed hat on the rocks I sit,
where tern and sea-mew glide and beat,
and where dark shadows the cormorants meet.

In caverns cool when the tide's a wash,
I sound my conch to the watery splash.

From out their grottos at evenings beam,
the mermaids swim with locks agleam.