A white skull on black lava.
So much devastation, so much silence. So much beauty.
I found this sheep skull on the lava field close to our cottage. So much beauty in that black-looking endless plain of an ancient lava field to find such'a snow-white skull.
So in the early morning light, I photographed this work. The deep contrast touches me every time I look at it. A beautiful clean skull against all that black from the lava of the Kilauea volcano.
In my eyes, it is a story that on the one hand says a lot, but at the same time contains a lot of silence. That questions existence, but also gives peace in the space of not answering that question.
That gives room for silence. For reflection. For peace. A calm that comes after the eruption of violence that can result from a volcano. In which it takes and takes and takes, but after which also comes the long silence.
When the lava has hardened, the calm has returned, comes the long haul of recovery. Of building new fertile earth. But in reflection to what once was.
That is what this work symbolises for me.
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