Process

This drawing is one of three that emerged in the autumnal space between equinox and solstice, with a radiant subterranean form piercing the ground.

I’m just now realising it also reminds me of ‘orogeny’, the enthralling seismic magic system in N. K. Jemisin’s ‘Broken Earth’ trilogy.

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(Note framed image is indicative)

References

'Violet rebels' is a reference to The Fall of the Rebel Angels completed by ​Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1562.

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'the Great Great Deep' is an adapted use of the lines: "...please / try to go to the great /great great fire that you / created..."

in Hannah Emerson's poem The Centre of the Universe in The Kissing of Kissing - an extraordinary debut collection published by Milkweed Editions in 2022.

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