Banks of Roses
A standing figure drawn as exposed blue line over magenta and teal, its own Nietzsche lettered around it — forest and night of trees, with banks of roses for anyone unafraid of the darkness.
A figure drawn as exposed structure — blue and white line laid bare like an x-ray — standing in a field split between magenta and teal, its face marked in yellow like war paint or a mask. Around it, in the artist’s own hand, runs the whole of the Nietzsche line.
I am forest and a night of trees, but he who is not afraid of my darkness will find banks of roses under my cypresses. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The darkness is painted as colour, not absence; the roses are promised, not shown. What the figure offers is a dare — come past the night, and there is something growing underneath.