Drawing on the landmark texts by C.G. Jung and Friedrich Nietzsche that appeared in the chance selection of books, this painting is a meditation on the accrual and erasure of knowledge over time. The artist began with an earlier work from 2015, reworking the composition by scraping away previous layers of paint. The only remaining element is the female face in the centre, which emerges as a kind of icon, an echo of human desire for transcendence. This quote by Jung from a page selected via the chance-based process of the Game appears to resonate with Ededéen’s broader artistic project: “My knowledge musters an army of a thousand orators. They drag me away from your silence and from the blessed depths, where only truth wells up and deepest contemplation, where past and future converge rustling and where I see, in dark puzzling images, the future in the images of the remotest past.“