almost blessed

When Rolling Stone interviewed Dylan on the occasion of his 50th birthday (1991), he gave a curious response when asked if he was happy. He fell silent for a few moments and stared at his hands. "You know," he said, "these are yuppie words, happiness and unhappiness. It's not happiness or unhappiness, it's either blessed or unblessed. I do feel blessed."

I almost feel blessed these days, just as the hand in the image is almost in a position of blessing. I'm still going through dark times, but the light streaming from the exit is getting brighter every week.

Medium is cut-paper collage postcard. Cross-sectioned cadaver hand is from the Atlas of Topographic Anatomy (1911) by the flamboyant & controversial French surgeon Eugène-Louis Doyen. Large postage stamp (astronaut) is from Dubai. Smaller artistamp (boy) is by C.T. Chew.