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Whale Fall

As the last flickers of life fade She sinks into the depths.

The great journeys of her life remain etched into her skin Until the sharks tear it away, erasing the record of where she’s been

The life bleeding out as she sinks, but she is not alone In her final journey to nourish the starving depths of the unknown.

As her corpse settles on the seafloor She begins to be stripped away.

The hagfish follow the scent leaching out into the frigid ocean In search of the promise of life for their world of slow motion They burrow into her body to tear flesh away from bone Relishing in the muscle memories of warmth that she has known.

As the deep sea cleans off her bones She exists to be picked clean.

Squat lobsters make their homes in the shelter of her system Chiseling away the scraps of blubber that held her wisdom Working around the boneworms whose roots siphon the marrow And free the stories of her ancestors from her deep-sea barrow.

As the abysses exhaust her flesh She continues to sustain life.

The deeps worship her skeleton; great sustenance falling from the light None of which is ever wasted, for the abysses are sympathetic to her plight Bacteria extract the lipids from her bones so they may enrich The sediments around her grave, creating an oasis in a ditch.

As the deep sea strips away everything She still has more to give.

Even hundreds of years after her death and decay After the deep sea has consumed the stories her body could convey In a seemingly empty world of muddy plains Anemones and corals cling to her mineralized remains.

Have some close ups:

I love the chalky structure my fav brush makes 🫠 And I love Neptune grass (Posidonia oceania). Every picture or video of it waving in the water makes me breathe deeper ✨ Did you know it’s protected species?

Monet is one of my favorite artists by the way (Yeeess cliché, but the atmospheres he created *happy sigh*) I thought of his work while doing the corals ☺️ Ou! And I also love everything about Atlantis 🩵✨ Sunken statues and all the topics and lessons that come with that whole philosophy, legend and mystery 🥰

I could never ever be finished tinkering at the details of a face when it comes to a bigger brush 🙈 It’s like polishing a stone but with the difference, that I hunt for a perfection, that I not even want to achieve. I only want to do better and then – in the middle of imperfection – there is that moment where I look at it and know „This is it. It‘s fine now.“ Not perfect, but if I would continue, it would not get better, but worse instead 😂

For feeling completely blocked at the moment a painting is maybe just else. Drawing is lines, but painting is just color and I can layer all the imperfection, insecurities and struggles in form of colored brush strokes layer over layer until the whole picture builds itself – to look at it and go like „Hey, I made a thing. And it’s a good thing.“ ☺️

Thank you for reading my ramble too 😹🫶

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