… Just as the bee without the flower would be as gormless gnat.

Just as the painter without beauty would be joyless, a husk.

Just as beauty without the painter would be as withered of heart.

Just as all without God would be as a wilderness, lost.

Just as God without all would be as this all said, and lesser than that.

Where then be the divine?

Where then be her testament?

To you, from her, and all creation?

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Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. ~ 20 July 2023

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Japanese Anemones (1884) 
Painted by Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904).