“Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good.”
Genesis 2:10-12 NKJV
I think I walked this river bed in a dream. The river ran inside a mountain where the gold was abundant. I spoke with the elders for permission to access the land and its gold.
Once inside everything changed, I was transported to other lands and encounters.
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I made another 3 drawings and then put gold into one. I’m breaking my own rules now. My definition of partial presences required the use of negative space, of absence. And now I have filled it, manifested an agent, embodied something.
I would be annoyed and pedantic, and refuse…but right now I just want to make and this exploration needs to happen - if only to reinforce the use of absence and incompleteness.
I’ve now purchased some copper leaf to render another set. Something in the materials calls. Giving myself permission to detour actually feels helpful right now, as I try to recalibrate.
The narrative I’ve attached to this work feels off brief but then works at the same time.
I’m being indecisisve