Text I create a picture At the front of the picture I draw speculative history a refiguring of an origin story The diagram of a dialogue A paradox A belief crisis Far in the background I paint a circular city on an island over a swampy ditch in the middle

I create a picture. At the front of the picture I draw speculative history, a re-figuring of an origin story. The diagram of a dialogue. A paradox. A belief crisis. Far in the background, I paint a circular city on an island over a swampy ditch in the middle of the city of Atil. The city's outskirts extend almost to the edges of the picture, separated from it by a thin stroke of desert.  I establish myself in the right dimensions. I go into it.