Oil on canvas 12x16" (list price includes the physical)
The weight of history, of consequence, of knowing. The burden of good and evil pressed through every hard edge of time, colliding into this single moment of becoming.
Week 1 of DEVOUR - a year-long project of reading and responding by Rocketgirl.
This painting is an abstract reflection on the book 'Question 7' by Richard Flannagan:
“Poetry may make nothing happen, but a novel destroyed Hiroshima and without Hiroshima there is no me and these words erase themselves and me with them.”
DEVOUR I RUPTURA interprets the emotional residue of the book rather than its narrative - the heaviness, the hidden knowledge, the quiet rupture between past and present. The work offers a gesture toward the moment when understanding becomes unbearable yet brings profound clarity.
