
Bare paper, edge to edge, with the faintest broken strokes clinging to the four corners.
HE CLOSES HIS EYES AND GOES INTO THE LIGHT. This is the travel, not a transition: he is moving through it when the vortex opens. Nothing is drawn to stand for light, the light is the paper.
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Phase. Phase 7 of 15, THE VORTEX, UP.
Hero’s journey. CROSSING THE THRESHOLD. Not the door, the line under it. Point of no return.
Element. WATER as cloud, and THRESHOLD.
THE BRAIN BRAKE
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