About the work

A closer look.

Everyone knows Thor fishing for the world serpent. The poems keep the part the films drop: the bait was an ox head, the line was strong enough to hold a mountain, and when the serpent came up Thor's own nerve nearly went. The gods got what they wanted in the end, but not there and not then. So the picture is the moment before it. One whole serpent reared out of a black sea in a great arch, spines down its back, a single gold eye on the water. Under the arch a longship, small enough to be swallowed by a wave. One JPG that prints clean at 20x16 in. The telling is the fishing trip the films drop: the ox-head bait, Thor's nerve going, and why the picture is the moment before. Print it yourself, or take the file to any print shop and ask for 20x16. It is the same picture either way.