DEVOUR VIII: SORS

Oil on canvas 12x16" (physical included at list 0.420Ξ)

Week 8 of DEVOUR: a year-long project of reading and responding by Rocketgirl.

This painting is an abstract reflection on the book 'FLESH' (David Szalay).

“There's something terrible about the way normality asserts itself. About the way that summer insists on happening. About the way the chestnuts blossom and Wimbledon takes place.” ― David Szalay, Flesh

DEVOUR VIII: SORS interprets the emotional residue of the book rather than its narrative — the heaviness, the hidden knowledge, the quiet rupture between loss and what refuses to be lost. The work offers a gesture toward the moment when beauty becomes an act of defiance.