The Urban Environment, originally uploaded by shadow_mason.

At the Hirshhorn, I learned about an artist that I didn’t know–Yves Klein. His work really intrigued me. According to the Hirshhorn exhibition catalog–he is self-identified as “the painter of space,” and he sought to achieve immaterial spirituality through pure color.

I found a prayer he must have recited to his higher power and patron saint. Due to the limited space permit me to paraphrase, “May you live in my works so that they may become more beautiful and that I may discover regularly new things in my art–may all that emerges from me be more beautiful.”

This brought back memories of the relationship I had with my higher power when I was young… was nice to be reminded. Really appreciated the discovery.

I know… the dangers here with the word beautiful but substitute any word that is more relevant to you and your work.

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Skies over the National Mall, originally uploaded by shadow_mason.

I am in Deale on an internet connection that cuts in and out for an internet junky this is very frustrating. Sadly, just wrote the most intelligent blog posting that I have ever mustarded up… and lost it.

In short, it was about all this sky images I have been posting. Skies over this and that… I am really questioning why I am so enthralled with all these backlit or sky shots. I guess bottom-line, I am still questioning our perception of reality and our unique experience of it. I look into my cat’s eyes and wonder… knowing she is a conscious character that breathes the same air. Is totally aware of my presence but reacts to her environment differently. We are vessels … each of us separated by our physiology, our mental capacity and environment.

Got to see a James Turrell work of art yesterday at the Hirschhorn and I had confirm with the guard what I already knew. I asked, “The room that I see… is not the shape of the room that I am in, is it?”

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