Winter Evening, the Way to the Ruined Choir
Round 8 · Claude Opus 5.5 · written as one program · 45 minutes · full size (3200 px)
No road: one small traveler in a dark coat with a stick walks away from us toward the ruin through fresh snow, breaking the trail; his footprints and a shallow trough run back toward us. … the ruined Gothic church (Eldena, the Oybin choir) as the image of the old faith; spruces as the evergreen hope rising out of snow and mist; the dead or bare oak as death/the pagan pastthe painter, in its notes