Captive on the Carousel of Time T-Shirt

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This started as a perfectly cheerful scene from the Santa Monica Pier. But carousels bring various associations, from Something Wicked this Way Comes from Ray Bradbury, to some scary scenes from movies, the mirrors, the lights, the horses moving up and down and around and around. So this evolved into more of a conceptual piece about the circle of life. My recent trip to Los Angeles, where I grew up, filled me with a sense of how fleeting life can be. The title comes from Joni Mitchell's song, The Circle Game.

And the seasons they go round and round,
And the painted ponies they go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

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