Embrace

Released from the embrace of art and clasped again in an embrace of politics and history, that of my own country, that of another's, and that of the fifteenth century. History told forwards and learnt backwards. Individuals placed in context of the events that unfolded or are still unfolding – still felt or are of now and may yet be felt by generations to come. Of what are we made? Resistance and violence; joined and severed hands; ill-starred, ill-advised negotiations, enemies-turned-saviours and bogus declarations of peace on which the future stands or falls.

Picture credit: Shadow of the Teacher, 1932, Nicholas Roerich (source: WikiArt).

From journal, May 2022.