Teacher

 AS: No. 1

mixed media on paper, 2019

24" x 22"

How does one accept a lesson in grief?

By our mere humanness, we deny it.  

Refusing to be its pupil.

Protesting against its movement, its colloquial speech.

Scribbling over its illustrative diagrams, layering papier-mâché.

I wonder this: what does life offer to the one who accepts the lesson, even learns from it,

yet finds himself in continual conflict with his teacher?

Can a lesson be taught if the process does not reach completion?

Is there a dimension of grief that remains?

It is a longing of the deepest measures for the one who wishes to let go and return to himself,

to function and desire life again

without being reminded that grief is still present.

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Opening up 2019 with a series very close to my heart.

Alexander Supertramp

A visual body of work exploring the meaning behind Chris McCandless's words, "I now walk into the wild." 

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