Watercolor study for oil, 23cm x 30.5cm ( 9" x 12"),  late August, 2003, Bekkevoort, Belgium  "Earth, isn't this what you want: to arise within us, 
invisible?  Isn't it your dream 
to be someday wholly invisible? - O Earth: invisible!
What if not transformation is your urgent command?
Earth, my dearest, I will.  Oh believe me, you no longer
need your springtimes to win me over - one of them,
ah, even one, is already too much for my blood."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, from the Duino Elegies