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mostly constituted by water). There

is no life force without the

animating fires of desire. They
create the hot, energetic steam that
rises above the cooling, smothering,

dousing damp, and they break loose
a creative vitality that gives us hope

for the future. But the mud-cracks
suggest that human desire is

burning out of control in an all-
consuming greed that sucks dry
life’s vital resources, destroys its

energetic tension and leaves us

lethally parched. The culprit,
signified by the single, enclosed

figure, is the bounded, individual
ego, and the solution to over-

consumption is ego-release. This is
akin to the immense relief when the

rains come at last and healing water
seeps into the desperately cracked
mud bed, softening the glassy edges

and re-forming the clay into the

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