Codes
Sapling #29
Some rooms were made to be entered by you.
There is no need for it to happen instantly, however, and often it won’t even work that way. The doors don’t just yield and open.
Sometimes a door can be a presence taken so much for granted that you don’t even notice it’s there. You have to walk past it often enough to eventually grow curious. Sometimes you want to go in from the start, very much even, but it turns out to be locked.
Every once in a while a door only becomes visible for those who, against all odds, keep believing it is there. Codes will only allow themselves to be read by those ready to break them.
Sometimes you know you will go in the moment you see it. Even if you don’t really want to, or you find yourself shuddering or staring at the silent keyhole for as long as you can, searching for answers and guarantees. For beyond every door is a world, the beginning of one thing and the end of another. You never know what you will find. You never know what you will leave behind until it is no longer there.
Only, some rooms were made to be entered by you. For the code has shown itself, and the light in your back urges you on. The grains in the woodwork are calling you by your name.
You step inside. You breathe new air.
And gently, with the softest click, the door to the past closes itself behind you.
The SAPLING series is a joint project with artist and illustrator Jurgen Walschot.
Saplings are creative sprouts. I will write to the images, he will draw to the words.
