Peril at Sea 2 (2021) Drawing by Edwin Loftus

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Hapless recreational sailors on rough waters. A "chop" has risen, a Great White Shark is testing their boat for an attack and grinning death heads in the clouds indicate a storm is upon them. As an old Sea Chanty put it, "They are sailing for the lowlands, low.". I've lived near the Pacific Coast of North America most of my life and seen firsthand [...]
Hapless recreational sailors on rough waters. A "chop" has risen, a Great White Shark is testing their boat for an attack and grinning death heads in the clouds indicate a storm is upon them. As an old Sea Chanty put it, "They are sailing for the lowlands, low ..."
I've lived near the Pacific Coast of North America most of my life and seen firsthand how dangerous it can be.
But it is a fine to feel the wind in your face and salt scent in the air as the deck rolls beneath your feet, sails snap in the wind and the hull slaps and shivers as it strikes each wave. It is eerie when you live on the shore, with people and resources around you, to go out where none of that security exists. Living in the mountains was easier, though physically just as isolated. But if I stepped out of a tent or cabin, it didn't put my life in danger. Stepping off of a boat out on the water does. With reasonable precautions, it's not immanently dangerous, unto itself, but I have also seen how quickly an ordinary activity can be turned into a deadly one.
We do not live in safety, no matter where we are or how we live. Nor would most of us choose to. It is at the edges of our sense of safety that we learn what we can expect of ourselves and of others, and since risks are taken, inevitably sometimes we go too far.
One of the great gifts in our lives is death. Death will claim us all in a matter of time that will seem too short, no matter when we die. But if life was endless, who would dare risk their life and all of those opportunities to live and experience yet to come? That we will inevitably die, frees us of much of the risk of death, for it will come, whether we are ready or not. We cannot choose to always come out of life's challenges alive. But some of us, sometimes, can choose to risk death or embrace death, for reasons we choose, and reasons that make our deaths meaningful to us instead of simply inevitable.

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Edwin Loftus is an American painter and draftsman born in 1951. His interest in art began at the age of 4 when he decided to draw something real rather than working from his imagination. . As a child he excelled [...]

Edwin Loftus is an American painter and draftsman born in 1951. His interest in art began at the age of 4 when he decided to draw something real rather than working from his imagination. 

As a child he excelled at drawing and as a teenager he began to experiment with oil painting. In college, he took courses in art and art history and realized that true art had nothing to do with the quality of the drawing or painting, but that it had to have the ambition to push the boundaries and expand the visual experience. 

He also studied philosophy, psychology and history and quickly realized that it was just another art establishment trying to defend its elitist industry and reward system. Their skills were almost non-existent, they knew nothing about psychology, perception or stimulus response, and they were extensions of the belief system that made communism, fascism and other forms of totalitarianism such destructive forces in the world. They literally believe that art shouldn't be available to ordinary human beings, but only to an elite "sophisticated" enough to understand it. 

Edwin Loftus realized that the emperors of art had no clothes, but they were still the emperors. Gifted in art, he worked hard to acquire this skill. So he found other ways to make a living and sold a few artworks from time to time. For sixty years, many people enjoyed his works and some collected them. 

Today, Edwin Loftus is retired. Even if he sold all his paintings for the price he asked, "artist" would be the lowest paid job he ever had... but that's the way it is.  It won't matter to him after he dies. He just hopes that some people will like what he does enough to enjoy it in the future. 

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