What is paint but powder.
What is a painting but an object on the wall,
an image of flowers or a fish.
The object of the image is not there,
it is an illusion, it is an abstraction.
If you substitute the pigment with ash from that cremated object, a fish, and render the image with the object itself,
is it then an abstraction or a fish?
And is this fish just an animal swimming in the sea, or is it also food on my table, sustenance, life giving, becoming part of me,
who I am.
Am I part fish?
What is a person but flesh and blood.
Do I also provide sustenance in my shadow,
in the footprint of my time?
What do I give, leave behind, become?
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