the sea: our grey sweet mother.

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About the sea: our grey sweet mother.

The ocean has fascinated human minds for centuries, likely since the birth of thought, and has always, like Odysseus' sirens, had an irresistible call.


This group is for celebrating our obsession with the sea as artists.


The group name was inspired by this excerpt from James Joyce's Ulysses:

"He mounted to the parapet again and gazed out over Dublin bay, his fair oakpale hair stirring slightly.

—God! he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks! I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look.

Stephen stood up and went over to the parapet. Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of Kingstown.

—Our mighty mother! Buck Mulligan said.

He turned abruptly his grey searching eyes from the sea to Stephen's face."
-James Joyce, Ulysses

To read more of this masterful, and sea obsession-filled, work, Project Gutenberg:Ulysses by James Joyce