Redtree Times

Winterglide— At Little Gems, West End Gallery

You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.

–Pablo Picasso, Picasso and His Art, 1975

It was cold and clear last night under a full moon last night. There’s a certain power in its appearance on such nights. Not Lon Chaney, Jr. in The Wolfman power though I guess it does have that sort of power as well. No, it’s more life-affirming, more indicative of our connection to everything.

Illuminating. I guess that would be the right word here. The moonlight takes away the deathly darkness that envelopes most nights, creating new forms and shadows that gives permission for your imagination run wild.

It’s much like Picasso said about painting, it remains there like a question and it alone gives the answer.

Maybe the question is the answer on such nights.

I don’t know. You probably don’t know either. And that’s as it should be.

Some questions need to be unanswered, to just hang out there like the moon.

Sigh…

Okay, here’s this week’s Sunday Morning Music. Its title, The Moon, is on point for today’s subject. It’s from The Swell Season which is comprised of one of my favorites, Glen Hansard, and Marketa Irglova. You might remember them as the young couple in the wonderful film Once. This a lovely and fitting tune.