Flower of Pain / Allegory of Poetry, 2020Ink and watercolour on paper, 29.5x24 cmDream of the Scorpi
Flower of Pain / Allegory of Poetry, 2020Ink and watercolour on paper, 29.5x24 cmDream of the Scorpion ShadowI’m writing a letter to a friend in a sunlit room. I know I’m alone, so when I hear a weird noise behind my back it alarms me. I turn around and see that my afternoon shadow is open like a cutout in the floorboards and there’s a dark mass writhing within it. As I stand there stricken with terror a giant scorpion tail rises up from the mass like a threatening cobra. The sting hits my chest with a great weight and introduces a pain that I can hardly describe at all. The pain is so strong it feels tangible – it manifests itself in a sharp sprout bursting from my chest, quickly developing a hard stem that pushes my head back as it lunges upward. I can feel the roots ramify in my veins and right before the dream ends I witness the opening of a large fantastic flower at the end of the stem. -- source link
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