Blessing the Sky

The image was taken in the open seas of the Caribbean and is part of the collection called “Anatomy of the Caribbean Skies”.

The artist/photographer found a person in the sky made of clouds.  He was seen blessing the sky. 

The vision of the artist has no bounds and abstraction is part of that vision.  Blessing in the Sky is explained in a follow up piece where the body in the sky is outlined with an overlay in order to clarify the art piece.  

The artist sees a Chagall like figure floating in the sky with both arms gracefully outstretched, blessing the sky

 

The heavens are a rich resource for the artist.  The art is part of a series that explores the changing vista of the heavens.  It is also a rich resource for moods and inspiration; gray skies, blue skies, sunshine, the rain, sunrise and sunset.  

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“Blessing the Sky”

The artist/photographer found a person in the sky made of clouds.  He was seen blessing the sky. 

The vision of the artist has no bounds and abstraction is part of that vision.  Blessing in the Sky is explained in a follow up piece where the body in the sky is outlined with an overlay in order to clarify the art piece.  

The artist sees a Chagall like figure floating in the sky with both arms gracefully outstretched, blessing the sky

The artpiece teaches us that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Some quotes about the eyes of the beholder:

“Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter’d by base sale of chapmen’s tongues”   Shakespeare  Love’s Labours Lost, 1588:

“Beauty, like supreme dominion
Is but supported by opinion”   – Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1741, 

“Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.” David Hume’s Essays, Moral and Political, 1742

People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. – Salma Hayek