Creation is an act of ensoulment.

This impulse is written into our oldest creation myths. Across cultures, with a consistency that perhaps points to something other than coincidence, a creator god shapes the first human from clay and ensouls it through breath.

The recurring breath-of-life motif hints at the simultaneous drawing in and drawing forth of inspiration, received and exhaled into form.

Thus, humans possess a peculiar capacity to bridge the realms of spirit and matter, transmuting the imaginal, the conceptual, and the emotional into material form.

Art: The making of Premature Marble (2017) by Hakon Anton Fageras