Job never ends (2024) Resim Natalie Levkovska tarafından

There are some jobs that are never quite done.
Gardeners know this. Even if one day you have tidied up your area perfectly, the next day you can start all over again. And the reason is not because you missed something, but because all living things are by nature aggressive and chaotic.
The other day I sat in the middle of the garden and for a moment I carefully contemplated an activity that is usually excluded from my field of vision; I looked at the growth of weeds, the movement of thousands of insects in the grass and tree branches, the movement of birds, the sun, the wind - a myriad of factors constantly at work. And I looked at everything from the outside and saw myself alone, straining and sweating on this battlefield for my perfect garden bed. All this gardening and agrarian activity is very similar to Sisyphus' labor. Hard work, which, in fact, has no end (well, relatively, of course).
At times my inner voice tells me to drop it all and go paint, write, sculpt, create!... life is ticking along.
But how delicious my own homegrown pickles are. How Uma and I love them. And sour but my own apples and sweet courgettes, which you get so overloaded by the end of the season that you don't even want to think about them for a long time afterwards.. I love my flower beds and freshly cut grass. And I love this thankless Sisyphean labor.
This is a one-of-a-kind drawing made by me in tempera and colored pencils on 340 gsm. cardboard. The drawing was fixed with professional spray varnish for gouache drawings for preservation. The image is signed by hand on the front side. Not framed.
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