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Tangle in Roots

Oil on cradled wood panel, framed in a shadowbox frame

121.92 × 121.92 cm (48 x 48 in)

Moth wings break into dust before they reach the soil.

There is no distinction between a quiet breath and the last flight of a moth.

Roots gather, not in cruelty,
not in kindness.

Nothing here hesitates.
The system continues.