Nature
“Nothing beats paint for stopping time cold”…”The weather isn’t looking good, time’s running out, a shrapnel of light falls whitely on the birch” - p. 124/125 Olivia Laing, Funny Weather
There is always something to reclaim to invoke positivity, emotion or something otherwise impactful. Those who have learnt to see, through art of some kind, can reclaim those shrapnels of light when darkness has dominated.
“Nature is a strange factory, relentless in its productivity. We like to think life and death are opposite states, but it’s all tangled up together, the cherry blossom and the cancer: a never-ending production of more, a monstrous fecundity - Dylan Thomas’ green fuse that drives the budding flower but also blasts the roots of trees” - Olivia Laing,
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