MOSES IN THE CLOUDS

June 3, 2012.  Sunday, the Barnes in Philadelphia.  A broken muffler, a wire clothes hanger and a repair, just before the storm.  We were rewarded with Moses in the Clouds.  What a structure - pillar of white bathed in the sunlight.  A flat wreath on which to steady his feet to deliver his message.  A billow of white behind him, a halo for his head.  Pink is laced throughout, softening the image and maybe the message.

GATES OF HEAVEN II

October 27, 2010. The blue Gates of Heaven have been replaced with billowing clouds of fabric. Clouds with their promise of what they cover and obscure, with the certainty that they will move on and reveal. They are temporary, transitory, but always returning to once again obscure and to cause us once again to anticipate that which we cannot see, but which we know through habit, or faith or repetition. These are not, however, the clouds of Michelangelo, no such invention here.