Pink cloud and cockatoos at the table, 5 April 2020

Looking out at a pink cloud at dawn, the hills of the escarpment are like the raking seats of a theatre around the performance area of the sea.  I'm looking at a Byzantine calendar and seeing that today is the Sunday of St Mary of Egypt who, after an encounter with the Virgin Mary redeemed her life of debauchery by wandering in the deserts of Egypt for decades, living on plants, and gradually becoming naked as her clothes wore away. She is described as baked dark brown by the sun with white hair and living entirely alone.  The birds watch the figurine of the crouching person from Pompei who may have felt at fault for the explosion of the volcano. In that era the ways of deities and humans were quite entangled.

Diana Wood Conroy, Pink cloud and cockatoos at the table, Watercolour on Arches paper 15 x 21 cm,April 5 2020