Oil on canvas 12x16" (list price includes the physical) Week 2 of DEVOUR - a year-long project of reading and responding by Rocketgirl. This painting is an abstract reflection on the book 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' (Haruki Murakami) “In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.” - Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle My feelings after reading: a lonely suspension and soft-focus dread, broken by flashes of tenderness. Haunted, slightly dislocated, and weirdly reflective. DEVOUR II: DELUSIO interprets the emotional residue of the book rather than its narrative - the heaviness, the hidden knowledge, the quiet rupture between past and present. The work offers a gesture toward the moment when understanding becomes unbearable yet brings profound clarity.