It’s funny to me how your eye sees one thing and the camera sees something else.
I saw this:
But my camera saw this:
It’s all about perception.
No comments on my camera
Category: Beautiful
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Lying on the cold grass
Glued to the skin of the planet
by the weight of atmosphere
and the pull of gravity
Looking down into the Abyss of Stars
Only the thin scarf of Sky
holding me back from the arms of God -
Open Culture is a great website for finding all sorts of interesting media. Today, there was a post on their Facebook page about a couple of videos of Leonard Cohen’s poems.
His poetry doesn’t always touch me. This one did.
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The North Carolina Museum of Art had a Still Life exhibition last winter and I learned a new word. It is vanitas. Vanitas “allude to the transience of life.” They, frequently, have fruit (sometimes beginning to spoil), flowers (sometimes beginning to lose petals), butterflies, musical allusions, bones, time pieces. Some were lavish bouquets of flowers that would never have stayed fresh long enough to be painted, or simply didn’t bloom in the same season.
One piece I found to be particularly clever had fruit and flowers that would never be present together. They are seasonally incompatible. (You have to know some about what produces when for that one to make sense. It would have worked better for people who grew their own food than the denizens of supermarkets. I’m not sure my son knows that grapes and tulips don’t go together.)
I like the more subtle vanitas, the ones you have to be paying attention to recognize.
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Say not in grief that she is no more
but say in thankfulness that she was
A death is not the extinguishing of a light,
but the putting out of the lamp
because the dawn has come.it is perfect.
I am the Audience 