Oil on canvas 50X50cm (physical included at list price 0.69E, p&p included worldwide)
#8 of DEVOUR: a year-long project of reading and responding by Rocketgirl (please note the cadence has now changed to one work per month - DEVOUR VIII: SORS is the mint for March 2026)
This painting is an abstract reflection on the book 'Flesh' (David Szalay).
“There's something terrible about the way normality asserts itself. About the way that summer insists on happening. About the way the chestnuts blossom and Wimbledon takes place.”
― David Szalay, Flesh
DEVOUR VIII: SORS interprets the emotional residue of the book rather than its narrative — the heaviness, the hidden knowledge, the quiet rupture between loss and what refuses to be lost. The work offers a gesture toward the moment when beauty becomes an act of defiance.
