“Fire Is the Shadow Side of Enchantment…

Hannah Moghbel
“Fire Is the Shadow Side of Enchantment…Too Often We Have Allowed Ourselves to Believe That We Can Live Whole Lives In the Absence of Suffering. We Are Told That Uniform Happiness Is The Only Desirable Experience. But This Itself Is Disenchantment. Fire Brings Us Back Into Contact With The Cycle Of Life, With The Limits Of Our Control, and With The Full Spectrum of Human Feeling. It Teaches Us Hard Lessons and Burns Through Our Fragile Illusions. Without It We Are Living Only a Surface Existence, a Shallow Terrain. We Must Assimilate Fire to Become Whole Again.”  -Katherine May 
72"x48"
Oil on Aluminum Panel