{"id":2142,"date":"2012-02-12T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2012-02-12T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T15:52:10","slug":"light-is-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2012\/02\/12\/light-is-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Light is Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Claude Monet painted his series of haystacks he wasn’t looking at the hay, he was looking at the light.<\/p>\n

What more mundane subject could he have chosen? A haystack. No one leaning against it as in a Van Gogh or a Millet. Just a haystack. He did 25 of them. All are luscious and each different because of the different time of day and season he chose to paint them in.<\/p>\n

Monet saw the light.<\/p>\n

He saw how changes in light changes reality, at least our sense of it. He learned to paint fast. In plein air<\/em> painting \u201creality\u201d keeps changing. Shadows shift from one side to the other. Different colors come out or recede depending on cloud cover or the sun’s angle. He would finish a painting in an hour and a half, or come back the following day to the same spot at the same time.<\/p>\n

Light is essential for painting.<\/p>\n

More, light is essential for living.<\/p>\n

It’s not for nothing our eyes are called \u201corgans of light.\u201d Without their counterpart in nature, they’d be nothing but little dust catchers, annoying soft spots in hard heads.<\/p>\n

Eyes and light dance together. Without light there’s only night. With it, everything is ours.<\/p>\n

In all creation, light was first, and the way opened for the rest.<\/p>\n

Because of light, every morning is a new birth; and for its waning, every evening a little death.<\/p>\n

The ancient writer never considered whether light was particle or wave (nor are we very sure) but he did know this:<\/p>\n

\u201cLight is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun<\/strong>.\u201d*<\/p>\n

He who sees it is enlightened.<\/p>\n

And enrichened<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s another gift\u00a0that’s free.<\/p>\n

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*Ecclesiastes 11:7<\/p>\n

Currently painting in coastal Oregon where the light shows its wonder in infinite shades of gray.<\/p>\n

Next: Anne-aversary<\/em>. Coming Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Light is sweet, and it pleases the eye to see the sun. It’s another free gift. Open it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}