Exegesis THE EMPRESS (III) Sentences 4–6
4 Watercolorist, you are the painter of inner visions
5 When you will present your images, they will burn for the one who sees
6 By creating within the smoke, the one who sees will open their eyes
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4 “Watercolorist, you are the painter of inner visions” those that arise from the folds of silence and wait for a hand to reveal them. It is through these visions that you open the doors between what hides and what longs to appear. Each stroke on the paper becomes a passage, a spark of an invisible reality waiting to be perceived.
5 “When you will present your images, they will burn for the one who sees”
The fire takes place within them: not a fire that destroys, but one that illuminates. Your works deposit a spark inside the beholder, a spark that burns away inner veils and reveals what was buried. The beholder becomes the space where the image completes itself — where it truly becomes.
6 “By creating within the smoke, the one who sees will open their eyes.”
By creating within the smoke — that realm of emerging forms, drifting symbols, and ambiguous presences — you grant the beholder the possibility of opening their eyes. In this creative haze, the image is never closed: it calls, it invites, it demands participation. Thus the beholder, moving through the smoke of your gesture, becomes a seer in return. It is they who fulfill the vision.
