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I search:

For pattern and color and shape and line and margin

For nature intermingling with architecture

For that altered by our sun and moon and man-made suns

For meaning in the meaningless

I search until my eyes and thoughts rest:

On a soft veil,

a screen for protection and projection,

granting patterns and colors a soft surface to land, 

consistently changing

from minute to minute, 

season to season,

rain to shine

On small creatures,

amoral,

symmetrical,

evolutionally determined, 

long predating the human - the human being their (and the worldʼs) continual aggressor - and vastly outnumbering, 

abiding by rules unknowable to themselves

These are the bounties of my search for now,

and I wield them, 

collaborating with time and nature and oil and pigment and fiber to create an object I call Complete,

hoping:

To converge memory and image

To invent the immortality of a moment

To forget my own mortality

for a moment

To exorcize my guilt for the victims of the human

To expose beauty in the ordinary, the overlooked, and the ugly

I search.

— Megan White, June 2019

Megan White (b. 1994) is a painter currently living and working in Nashville, TN. In 2016, she received her BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.