DEVOUR IIII: EGO NON SUM

Oil on canvas 12x16" (physical included at +0.3E bids)

Week 4 of DEVOUR - a year-long project of reading and responding by Rocketgirl.

This painting is an abstract reflection on the book 'Immortality' (Milan Kundera).

“Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.”

• Milan Kundera, Immortality

DEVOUR IIII: EGO NON SUM interprets the emotional residue of the book rather than its narrative - the heaviness, the hidden knowledge, the quiet rupture between past and present. The work offers a gesture toward the moment when understanding becomes unbearable yet brings profound clarity.