Georgia O'Keeffe and Remembering to Take the Time to Look Up ︵.︵

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‘The sun is bursting through wild dark clouds—I feel like falling into this country like one sometimes wants to fall off a sheer wonderful edge—It has such a feeling of death and terrific life—side by side.’

From a letter dated June 14, 1930 by the American artist Georgia O’Keeffe to her husband, Alfred Stieglitz.

Cirrostratus clouds viewed through a gap in Stratocumulus over Carrboro, North Carolina, US by Angela Winter... who also suggested this [the above] quotation.

More marvels moving in our atmosphere captured by a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society

Here is my favourite of O'Keeffe's Sky Paintings

When thinking of Georgia O'Keeffe's work it is not her Cloud Paintings which come first to many peoples minds. They are so very different to her more famous works in both subject and style.

Wikipedia has many words about her series of cloud paintings. However, in the end, neither paintings nor photographs need words to communicate.

Yet, a bit of background is always helpful and oft gives one a deeper perspective.