Rain in the night

A fast train of thoughts passes through the night rain

Foggy cloud of mixed emotions, which is the fuel

to trigger the next train of thoughts to follow

Heavy downpour continues...

Music of rain, a solo violin played underwater

white threads, water strings, tuned tension

Now the rain stops, trees continue to rain

Solo piano notes, drip, drip, drip…

Now everything stops. 
S i l e n c e.

Sun Worshippers

After seeing a post-impressionist show recently, I realize that all of their works are about light. Well, art is possible only with light and shade, after all. Impressionists were all about making light as a subject. A scene is just an agent for the depiction of this content. Monet is the best example of this with his almost ‘sun worshipping’ approach to painting. His colors in the reflections are a rare thing to experience in an original.



As proposed by Einstein, light is composed of photons, these very small packets of energy. The reason that photons are able to travel at light speed is due to the fact that they have no mass. So light travels and arrives somewhere. Darkness is just the absence of light. Darkness does not have any particles. So darkness does not have material existence. It seems like it does. But it disappears at the arrival of light. Simple law of physics. 


Thanks to the phenomena called light in this universe and the memory of impressionist works still brightens my mind with some hope. 

‘Ignorance is the cause for suffering. When the bright light of wisdom arrives, the darkness of ignorance disappears’ -Upanishad.

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Painting above:  ‎'The Cliffs at Etretat' by Monet. This is at the Normandy Beach in France. Monet wrote to his friend about this work saying that it was difficult to get this view from this particular spot as it was tough to climb down there to get the angle he wanted. It is always nice to know some anecdote related to a painting. For some reason this painting stood out in the show for me. The reflections of the golden light is magical in with his brush work. Colours he used for the sand are rare too.