I have just published a new slide-show on Youtube here!

The drawings in pencil on a black watercolour ground are inspired by a passage in The Runiad – the epic poem I am writing.

Stay with me now. There is the perfect shape

Of the vase. And there is what happens after its fall.

The fall is attacking the vase, yet the break is the making

Of the relic. Just as when the fragment that is left of a princess

Shows us as much of her lips as we need to comprehend

The sublime beauty of her once completed contour.

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The breaking vase is Shiva to me. The vase and its darkness exposed

Or the vase that services its filling. The broken one that revels

In the darkness that it shows. That completed contour – or its ruin

All the more sublime.

From The Runiad – Book 3

The passage can be found on page 76 of the Heyzine Book where this work in progress is being published.