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Reconcile

$600

“When a child first catches adults out ─ when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just ─ his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again.”

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Canvas with hand-generated gilding and embroidery. Imagery reflective of the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Adjustment disorders. Gold detailing follows the Circle of Fifths — a tonal architecture mirroring the diagnosis.

Adjustment disorders · 24 × 36 in