The InsideOutsidic Sagas: Burial at Sea

I was actually taking some shots for the border of another image, but when I looked at them in photoshop, the resemblance to a boat was uncanny.  Therefore, I shifted gears back into the fantasy realm of inside-outside.  I had thought I would have abandoned the inside-outside theme by now…but far from it.  Now that we are fully into the third wave of the epidemic there is no better time to continue exploring the difference, sameness, and implications of this binary.
 
Furthermore, the image struck me as very playful.  The idea is that one’s chess pieces might be carried off to some other realm, late at night after the game is over.  After all, these chess pieces died in battle...which should make them deserving of a Viking burial at sea!  In fact, they were sacrificed…and sacrifices have a place in many religions in addition to Norse mythology. Maybe there is an element of sacrifice involved in our responses to the pandemic, which is the source of my inside-outside theme.  If we think of sacrifice as a noble, or a even spiritual endeavour, then maybe giving things up by staying indoors becomes more than just a duty to public health…maybe adopting an inside-outside state of mind can be personally transformative?
 
…or maybe it’s just fun to imagine our toys coming alive at night.