Dear DMC.
Here is an article in praise of the humble cabbage:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/01/alexandra-harris-cabbages-art-first-book-award
No more needs saying.
Regards
Steve Reszetniak
London
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Dear Steve,
This article, right up our alley, is truly about “Celebrating the Ordinary.”
It was comforting to read it — to read about the long history of cabbage worship in art and literature. Cabbage, a symbol of ordinariness, being praised because of it ordinariness.
Grover
Tommaso Salini’s “Young Peasant with Cabbages
Emerging from a cabbagey sea”
From Museo Thyussen-Bornemisza printed in
Guardian article linked to above
