Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, somehow I am not with them. I am in the sky, flying, watching them go . . . I see myself as bird, with them, flying, up behind Alfonso and Birdie. I know I will be with them wherever they go. I watch from my place in the sky as they, we, become small spots getting smaller until there is only sky...
...notice how the snow glowed? Late that first night when it was still falling I went outside to watch. And I saw it: the whole sky was filled with green light...
...color photographs by Joel Meyerowitz currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Harcus Krakow Gallery display a lyric sensibility for which the thrill of the eye on the world's luminous surfaces -- water, sky, foliage,' flesh -- lovingly captured, contains intense emotional value. The photographs were shot with a largeformat view camera whose slow exposures and sizable 8x10 inch prints produce an almost magical sharpness and delicacy of color. All the photographs in the museum, and the majority in the gallery, were taken over two summers at Cape Cod. There, after many years' experience photographing in black...
...three planets were above the horizon only during the day, when they were invisible to the naked eye. Still, the Magi might have known about the daytime confluence. Most courts, even then, had astronomers perfectly capable of plotting the course of such bright and dramatic planets through the night sky and noting where their paths would cross during the day. Such a celestial coming together would likely be regarded as a portent of great events. Even here, though, the returns of science seem to be contradictory. Chinese and Korean astronomers noted that an extremely brilliant 70-day stellar flare...
...suburban context. Known as the Blue Whale, it is an immense exhibition hall, the Crystal Palace of the West Coast, providing more than 750,000 sq. ft. of space. The surface is not mirror, but semitranslucent blue glass, which glitters and disappears and re-forms against the dusty blue sky. In form, it resembles an extruded architectural molding: one single block. Its scale is its success; a vast illusion built for the luxury interior-decoration industry, plunked firmly down in Dreamsville...