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I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.

Emily Carr
Density, Juice, Earth
Emily Carr (2009). “Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr”, p.313, D & M Publishers
I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.