CHAPTER 4: ELSEWHERE
Mark C. Taylor precisely evokes the uncharted reality Peter finds himself in after his daughter’s death.
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Elsewhere
Peter Bruun
2019, 15”x22”, watercolor, gouache & pencil on paper
“To Peter, who has been elsewhere.”
This, the inscription from Mark C. Taylor to me in the copy of Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Death and Dying. In his book, he writes of his own near-death experience, and where it brings him.
“After such a journey nothing, absolutely nothing, remains the same – everything must be reconsidered and reevaluated. Family, friends, foes, colleagues, values, ideas, work, play, success, failure are no longer what they previously seemed to be.”
I toss my apple core aside. The ocean is different today: frothy, like the aftermath of a storm.
My daughter has died, and I am elsewhere.
(My drawing, puke-yellow and green; all teeter and fall.)