Wonder

July 06, 2025 - July 27, 2025

RK Contemporary, 32 Main Street, Riebeek Kasteel

 WONDER

I wonder about our time here

And the enormity of living; 

The vast expanse of places and people and feelings and curiosities to know,

And how impenetrable it can be

Like the navigation of a dense, mosquito-laden jungle.

I wonder about the volume of the sky when I stand outside at night stretching my arms upwards,

And even though I bend backwards, it is an act of supplication to souls that have gone before me.

Somewhere, in the mayhem of an ill-adjusted world in which there is a surplus of all the wrong things and a shortage of the good,

I wonder how to realign myself.

I think of animals and flowers.

I think of hands in the soil.

I’m reminded of Leonard Woolf’s statement in response to Hitler speaking on the radio in 1939: “I shan’t come in,” he shouted. “I’m planting iris, and they will be flowering long after he is dead.”

The wonder in the smallest detail that exists whether seen or unseen.

I think I shall sit quietly and watch.

Nina Holmes, Salon 104


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