CHAPTER 2: MARINE (ELISIF)
An essay by Rebecca Solnit reminiscing on a friend who died of an overdose rings all too familiar for Peter.
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Marine (Elisif)
Peter Bruun
2019, 15”x22”, watercolor, gouache & pencil on paper
I am lunching at the same waterside spot, butterflies dizzy around me.
For each of the past several days, a different chapter from Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Today, Abandon – a requiem for her friend, Marine.
“Three things define her for me, her beauty, her talent, and her mercurial disposition.”
Marine is Elisif: bright-winged; pirouetting.
I draw: rhythm and repetition, ochres and greens, aquas and purples, a symphony of color, swaying like hypnosis. There, on the left, red and small, easy to miss, turning away (more lost than we can know), a leaving.
She leaves.