This day signifies the awakening of consciousness after emerging from darkness.

On day 2, the word Mola appears. It means God in Kiswahili (a Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa) and the Mola fish, also known as the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), is one of the heaviest bony fish in the world. They float on the surface of the ocean and use sunlight to aid in digestion, capable of synthesizing and converting light into their own energy.
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Elly Strik’s works—For the Dreamdrift and Paradise Tears. And For You (eight parts), Hic et Nunc, Absorber, Cat in Fusion, and untitled pieces—invite viewers to drift between oceans of the conscious and unconscious, life and afterlife, open eyes, and gaze in between, becoming the moon ourselves. Under the moon, the delayed sun, the on-time ray of light in the darkness, we receive the tear of paradise, protected, awakened, and returned.

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