Hum of Virtue

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These souls are stuck; they believe that there is a way out. It’s funny because there never really is, it's all just a long timeline with variables. Souls traverse- make choices. Most of them don’t believe how simple it is. Do your thing, consequences are based on the actions that you believe in. From up here you can see it all. Is this really up? Or down? Direction has no implication. But either way we have access.


2

Those below this dimension are so stubborn and blind. They wanted to skip the point, just to get here. Which sadly isn’t even possible. If they could’ve heard me, trust me, it’s not that great. We are also ruled by choices like the rest of you.


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The virtues like to think they have everything under control, but their vices are tied to them. Similar to conjoined twins, tied to one another. They are singular entities that are in constant flux within themselves. Never being able to escape, purity doesn’t exist. They live in black and white.


Us and the Virtues/Vices traverse through the time and space without care, stirring the pot. Free from emotion and morals, just energy. We allow each other to exist, and the goal is to aid in transcendence.  Some souls need a hand, some need to be pushed off a cliff. 


They have always disagreed. The virtues ignored their vices and don’t actually do the work to accept themselves as duallities. Not that I am somewhat enlightened, I'm just an observer.


4

Belief and cynicism have been fighting. Cynicism is overpowering at this moment. The souls have stopped believing in a reality that is good and true. Teachings aren’t changing their minds that there is some belief that can keep people together. The cynicism is rampant individualisation.


5

Strength and numbness are actually pretty even right now. Those that have strength are leading those that are numb. It actually is uplifting them. As numbness becomes more pervasive, the strength kicks in. Somehow the souls are able to do them at the same time.


6

Truth and deception have never been blurred into one another here, this bad. Reality does not equal truth and the deception is disguising itself as truth. This is something that deception is great at, but now it seems like it has gotten so much more powerful on the individual and global scale.


7

The souls are at an all time low of ecstasy, they mostly are weary of the world. Especially this term of acedia. The noonday demons are taking over most souls' daily endeavors. Acedia is a hard one to move past when the epiphanies of ecstasy are being more and more spread apart.


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Modesty and jocularity swing on a pendulum, they kind of fall into one another. These two at this point are quite the pair. The humor from one and the sincerity from the other. They have been making quite the splash online. It has created some fun scenarios to watch.



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See here, this is always the question with the souls on earth. They have got to pick a path and they think that there is a correct answer. Turns out they just separate into each other. The paths don't matter only the outcome of the soul at the end. Sometimes we interfere and sometimes we don’t.




Katja Farin is a Los Angeles based painter. This text “Hum of Virtue” was a part of their solo exhibition at In Lieu Gallery 2021.