The Nile as Well-Being

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I keep returning to the fields and the river because that is where well-being lives — in the cycle of planting and harvest, in the family gathered around it. The Pharaonic past understood this completely.

Nostalgia, for me, is not sentiment. It is a way of insisting that the ordinary life of the Nile Valley is worth painting at the scale of myth.