Barbara Wunder Hynes
Ventura, California USA
"Dreaming
Atlantis”
My
fascination with the legend of the lost civilization of Atlantis began when I
was a teenager listening to folk singer Donovan’s dreamy, romantic ballad about
Atlantis and what may lie “way down below the ocean.”
Greek
philosopher Plato wrote approximately 2,400 years ago that Atlantis was an
ancient island empire established by Poseidon, the God of the Sea. Supposedly,
Atlantis was a technologically advanced Utopian society which valued peace,
art, and wisdom. The entire island was said to have disappeared into the
Atlantic Ocean after a day and night of fierce earthquakes and floods.
In 2011,
a U.S.-led research team claimed to have found evidence of Atlantis in the mud
flats of Andalusia, in southern Spain.
Did
Atlantis ever really exist, or is it merely a fabled legend? We may never know.
I’d like to believe that Atlantis existed as a beautiful Utopian society, and
it inspired me to create this regal aquatic-themed freeform crochet garment.
Freeform
crochet. Various yarns and threads, seashells, shell buttons, glass pebbles,
beads.
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