A Refuge Painting

“Its tradition stretched back through the Gypsy Kings to the Albigensians in the thirteenth century and the Bulgars in the twelfth, to the Crusades and the Baphometic idolatry of the Templars. The Greeks had acquired it from the Phoenicians, who themselves had drawn the veiled secrets of Thoth in a tenuous line from the priesthood of Isis. The tarot had been old even at the time of the pharaohs…” “‘That’s right. I’m talking to you. You’re up against an adult male human. A big one. Me. I’m the most dangerous animal you’re ever going to meet. That’s because I’m intelligent and you aren’t. I’ve got a shotgun and you’re so stupid you don’t even know what that is, you cretinous mutt.’” “He had never been to a football match, had found the game, like most sports, tedious, a needless demonstration of the futility of all human activity, but he remembered enough about it to know that money had been its wellspring.” “...the precise place where he had waited in the moonlight, was colouring and influencing his mind. It lay behind it like a background projection, sometimes obtruding into his thoughts. The lake was calling out to him. His simple, uncluttered existence there had suited his temperament. He might have been made for such a life. If the plague hadn’t happened he might even have wished it into existence merely to conjure everybody else away.” “This was the crucial dilemma. It underpinned the insoluble equation in his life. People were trouble, yet he was not meant to live alone.” “Later still, in 2010 and 2011, he spent time in the fabled, legendary land of America, at a place called Northwestern University.” “Hospitals, schools, prisons: all were designed and built to impose the will of others unseen. In his stew of fear and doubt, Suter momentarily felt a craving to belong in an institution such as this, to be suspended here for ever in this cool, indirect light, cared for, given calming drugs, monitored, all responsibility gone.” -Richard Herley (Refuge)

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:72 W x 48 H x 1.5 D in

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