Portrait I — What Are You Separate From

The cheekbone. How do you show this form? Where does it begin and end? Does it exist, without its connection to the eye, to the ear, to the cheek? It seems to have no boundaries, but without boundaries, it also has no form.
The face merges with the membrane of the totality. How does one show the void, that place where matter is not? Can it be shown or thought about without a reference to what is visible? Where would it begin? What form would it take? How would I represent it? The only representation possible is in contrast to what is; to show what is not, through what is.
The nonmaterial has no image. What becomes of the frog species that have become extinct? Their being remains in my memory, no longer in the material world. Their absence becomes part of the silence, the void, the emptiness. This extinction, due to negligence by human beings, is a crime of species domination, one species erasing the other, never to exist in form again.
Form is always being generated. The seeds will sprout new life. The endless proliferation of life is not determined by our consciousness. We are the ones who compare, who state the boundaries, who determine the separation, who declare the parts, who feel the isolation, and state the distinction between what we think is and what we think is not. We do not know the totality, the emptiness, the truth of what is or could be.