INK TREE I & II & III

Acrylic and Ink on Canvas 30 x 30 cms Varnished

 

I was transplanted to a dark planet where the first germs of creation were struggling together.

From a clay that was still soft rose gigantic palm trees,
poisonous euphorbias and acanthus twined about cactus the arid forms of rocks stuck out like skeletons from this sketch of creation, and hideous reptiles squirmed, enlarged, or grew round in the midst of an inextricable web of wild vegetation.

 The pale light of the stars alone illuminated the bluish
distances of this strange horizon; and yet, as the creations were formed, a more luminous star gathered from them... the germs of light.

—Gérard de Nerval, Aurelia (1854), translated by Richard Aldington (1932)

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