Painting by Paul Klee — MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist and philosopher. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Wikipedia
For those of you who follow this blog (kenneturner.com) titled “Becoming is Superior to Being,” know that’s a Paul Klee quote. With all the media talk about “Childless Cat Ladies,” I feel driven to share this Klee painting.
Delicate Arch In Arches National Park with the La Sal Mountains in the Background — Painting by kenne
Delicate Arch is a 52-foot-tall (16 m) freestanding natural arch located in Arches National Park, near Moab in Grand County, Utah, United States. The arch is the most widely recognized landmark in Arches National Park and is depicted on Utah license plates and a postage stamp commemorating Utah’s centennial anniversary of admission to the Union in 1886. The Olympic torch relay for the 2002 Winter Olympics passed through the arch.
Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone. The original sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch. Other arches in the park were formed the same way but, due to placement and less dramatic shape, are not as famous. — Source: Wikipedia
Though the cut flowers wilt and the leaves wither, blanching in the vase for days, still they remind me of fields, the loveliness of fading part by part, so many changes, not sudden the cutting down, not brutal but a way of undoing. A fulfillment. Merciful, you could say, the cutting down and then the slow undoing, which returns forms to their beginning as they go, petal by petal, and leaf curling, how one shrivels and falls.
Cooper’s Hawk in Mesquite Tree — Painting by kenne
“For those of us who portray wildlife . . . our decision to persist in our quest for excellence is almost always based on a love affair, a fascination with the creatures of our planet, and a need to share this feeling the best way we know how.”