[lang_en]Flock Of Ospreys Looking For The Old Blind Sea Captain Who Dreams Of His Deceased Sea Fellows Under A Visiting African Sun
Dylan Thomas Theatre
Niamh McCann has taken her inspiration from different elements: the background sea/skyscape in her mural is a simplified graphic representation of the James Harris Snr painting ‘Swansea Bay in Stormy Weather’; an African cigarette logo provides the red sun; the over looking ospreys are a Swansea logo and reference and finally, the title, combining all these and intimating the presence of a character from Dylan Thomas’s Under Milkwood.
All these elements (and their back-story) come together to create a landscape, which is both local and disparate within the given landscape of Swansea.[/lang_en]
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Flock Of Ospreys Looking For The Old Blind Sea Captain Who Dreams Of His Deceased Sea Fellows Under A Visiting African Sun
Theatr Dylan Thomas
Mae Niamh McCann wedi’i hysbrydoli gan sawl elfen: mae’r môr/awyr yn y cefndir yn ei murlun yn gyflwyniad graffeg symlach o ddarlun ‘Bae Abertawe mewn Tywydd Garw’ gan James Harris H_n; arwyddlun cwmni sigarennau Affricanaidd sy’n rhoi’r haul coch; mae’r gweilch uwchben yn arwyddlun ac yn gyfeiriad at Abertawe, ac yn olaf, mae’r teitl yn cyfuno’r rhain i gyd ac yn mynegi presenoldeb cymeriad o Under Milk Wood gan Dylan Thomas.
Mae’r holl elfennau hyn (a’r storïau y tu ôl iddynt) yn dod ynghyd i greu tirwedd lleol ac amrywiol fel ei gilydd yn y rhan yma o Abertawe, sef y dirwedd dan sylw.
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