The Quiet Inevitability of Water

Written By Margaret B. Wallace Araujo

(English version below. The original poem was written in Spanish.)

Este poema acompaña la serie pictórica The Quiet Inevitability of Water. Cada fragmento fue escrito a mano en el reverso de una de las tres obras. Separados pertenecen a cada pintura; unidos forman un mismo recorrido: origen, transformación y retorno.

Español — poema original

I

Noble y magnífica,
todo lo abarcas,
todo lo abrazas.

Mi salvaguarda primera,
guardiana de la semilla eterna.

II

De tu mar primigenio
surgieron las formas.
Noble y bella,
construyes y destruyes,
moldeas el existir.

III

A ti mi vida debo
y a ti volveré.

Porque tal vez la eternidad
no sea nada más
que aprender a fluir.

English version

A poem in three fragments

This poem accompanies the painting series The Quiet Inevitability of Water. Each fragment was handwritten on the reverse of one of the three works. Separately, they belong to each painting; together, they form a single journey: origin, transformation and return.

I

Noble and magnificent,
you encompass all,
you embrace all.

My first refuge,
guardian of the eternal seed.

II

From your primordial sea
forms emerged.
Noble and beautiful,
you create and destroy,
you shape existence.

III

To you I owe my life,
and to you I shall return.

For perhaps eternity
is nothing more
than learning to flow.

— Margaret B. Wallace Araujo

Margaret B. Wallace Araujo

Margaret B. Wallace Araujo (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1985) is a Uruguayan-Spanish multidisciplinary artist, writer, entrepreneur and independent researcher based in Barcelona, Spain. She holds a degree in Business Administration and an MBA in Financial Management. Her interdisciplinary practice explores identity, transformation, memory and consciousness through painting, writing and symbolic inquiry. She is the founder of Pink Paris Atelier, creator of the OROBORIS, an independent research framework on consciousness and complex systems, and author of Akh·mer·met, an ongoing artistic and philosophical body of work.

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