It hits with more impact in the original language. you can't help but get repetitive when you loose all the specific drama of the brushwork.

the context of this is that there is no other context. Most Lavanic poems are illustrated. because Lavanic characters are essentially pictographs, if one wants to be specific they might as well draw what is happening. Because there are no illustrations, we can assume the subject is abstract. The large character at the bottom left gives away the subject, with the dramatic waves accentuating out main character, the "beast" at the end that appears as this circular shape. circles are shorthand for some defined object, everything else is some kind of force, except for a,e,g and y type shapes, which describe a kind of middle ground between force and matter.

I hesitate to make any assertion about the meaning of this poem, because my own preconceived notions serve as the context that color the rest of the interpretation. I made it more about the creation of life, but it could be about an inorganic phenomenon, or maybe it is part of a larger poem and there is some specific context we are missing.

that said, here is my translation of the lavanic poem from the scroll above.

we saw the greater force, we saw the weaker force. as the stronger prevailed the weaker was slowed. lo the destruction of the strong is so great it stops the great force, and the destruction of the weak is so weak it prevails. Balance is achieved as soon as it is disrupted. Two equal forces are unequal together. unequal forces are equal together. something slips into the perfect harmonies, and one is above and one below.

The two that made the three that made the one that was nothing. the two that was one, the one that was three, the one that was empty. the emptiness grows, the growth empties. The emptiness moves forward and severed. those severed things defined themselves, and hollowed. they pressed against the outer world, the outer world broke them open. opened, they yet defined again. their open body shared that definition with another open body. one body, opened and closed, they released. this definition, nearly lost was caught, again and again. even into that maw, of the one that is two, the one that is three, the one that is empty did it live, by emptying itself and giving, by releasing and dividing.

lo down that river of forces does it prevail, between the spaces of battling currents. it makes it paths alongside great swells, to dwell in their open bellies. then moving again, it evades the traps of rigidity. in destructive turbulence it hides in gaps, in monotony it lies dormant.

beast of great force, you will multiply, beast of winding paths you will travel, beast entangled you will escape. there are those that are killed, separated, trapped. the killed are free, the separate are free, the trapped are free.

Lavanic art and language

Lavanism or Yavanism is a philosophy that uses the detection of beauty in the pursuit of truth. The Lavanic idea of beauty from others in the way that it separates human perspective and preference from abstract beauty. To the lavanic eye, a human or animal or landscape is not more beautiful just because it is young or healthy or fertile. Lavanic beauty is in the arrangement of matter. Lavanic art is made by and for the practice of honing one’s detection of beauty.

The text found in a lot of my artwork is a lavanic language. The letters and symbols represent the movement of matter, parallel lines represent the action of a wave, and particles the action of a particle. In that way it is very literal. It takes on more meaning in context. Lio out of context means a wave moved a particle to the right, or a wave produced a particle. As the name of a person it may mean they were given. Lioaloi out of context means a wave produced a particle, which was absorbed into a wave, the particle returns. As a name it means, they were given to be returned, they were returned. If you said it to someone, it might mean I gave you something, could you give it back now?

some text looks more like characters than the english alphabet. this is the later Lavanic text. when the characters become more complex like the larger ones, the meanings become at once far more specific and also meaningless. They aren't actually meaningless, it's just that the meaning is literal. The text describes the motion of matter by drawing the motion of matter. An immense amount of context is needed for us to glean any specific meaning.