Oil on canvas 12x16" (physical included) Week 4 of DEVOUR: a year-long project of reading and responding by Rocketgirl. This painting is an abstract reflection on the book 'Immortality' (Milan Kundera). “Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.” -Milan Kundera, Immortality DEVOUR IIII: EGO NON SUM 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.