The Barge She Sat In
December 2024–March 2025
Enobarbus: I will tell you.
"The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
It beggar'd all description: she did lie
In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue,
O'erpicturing that Venus where we see
The fancy outwork nature: on each side her
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,
With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,
And what they undid did.”
Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, act II, scene II.
Washington State Basalt
Herculanum calligraphy by Santa Barbara Monuments, CA
9.25¼ x 16 x 13¼”
44 lbs
Price on request