Shadow of Me

11×14″ watercolor on paper
September 8, 2012

Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Phantastes:

“Shadow of me!” I said, “which art not me, but which representest thyself to me as me; here I may find a shadow of light which will devour thee, the shadow of darkness! Here I may find a blessing which will fall on thee as a curse, and damn thee to the blackness whence thou hast emerged unbidden.”