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36"L x 16"H x 10"W
I read once that, as a songwriter, John Lennon was intrigued by the use of double words, beginning with Please Please Me. Although I had made one version of the Gypsy Queen a number of years ago, the fact that it was a double-ended ship always stayed with me. Operating as a ferry on a river, each end was essentially the same for efficiencies sake; neither a front nor a back, no stem or stern. Seen in another way, it was a kind of twin of itself, and since I was re-making it, it has now become a twin to the other. I had also conceived another version of it, as a greater ruin, on the bottom of the sea, in a completely different size—it’s twin of unfolding demise. Given this lack of beginning or end, the Gypsy Queen manages to touch something slightly larger, maybe infinite, beyond itself by virtue of its own Janus double form.
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