Original artwork description:

“Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.”
― Publius Ovidius Naso, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use— silence, exile, and cunning.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun


oil on thick cotton-fibre Arches paper, signed on the front and signed/titled on the back

Materials used:

oil on 300g/sm cotton-fibre Arches paper

Tags:

#sunset #gestural #color #desert #wild #expression #symbolism #intense #transcendence #existentialism #exile #joyce #incarnation #astray #ovid