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Angel of the unknowablePen, ink &
Watercolor
11”x16”
$50 + shipping
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed out candle.”
-Albert Einstein
Perched on the wall that separates the conscious from the unconscious, this angel keeps those secrets too terrible for us to know.
Would you really want to know the moment all your loved ones will die? The particulars of your own demise, what your fleeting last thoughts and emotions might be? Is there a supreme being? Is there a ‘great plan’? Am I loved?
She holds these terrible truths, beautiful enough to distract those who would scale her wall, to hurl their fragile psyches against the void. She is also strong enough to send them tumbling back down towards consciousness.
I think it’s time for me to buy a new brush…