The back story is equally fascinating...
http://psych.ucalgary.ca/PACE/VA-Lab/AVDE-Website/Monet.html
On 27/01/2016, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Monet Refuses the Operation
>
> Doctor, you say that there are no halos
> around the streetlights in Paris
> and what I see is an aberration
> caused by old age, an affliction.
> I tell you it has taken me all my life
> to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
> to soften and blur and finally banish
> the edges you regret I don't see,
> to learn that the line I called the horizon
> does not exist and sky and water,
> so long apart, are the same state of being.
> Fifty-four years before I could see
> Rouen cathedral is built
> of parallel shafts of sun,
> and now you want to restore
> my youthful errors: fixed
> notions of top and bottom,
> the illusion of three-dimensional space,
> wisteria separate
> from the bridge it covers.
> What can I say to convince you
> the Houses of Parliament dissolve
> night after night to become
> the fluid dream of the Thames?
> I will not return to a universe
> of objects that don't know each other,
> as if islands were not the lost children
> of one great continent. The world
> is flux, and light becomes what it touches,
> becomes water, lilies on water,
> above and below water,
> becomes lilac and mauve and yellow
> and white and cerulean lamps,
> small fists passing sunlight
> so quickly to one another
> that it would take long, streaming hair
> inside my brush to catch it.
> To paint the speed of light!
> Our weighted shapes, these verticals,
> burn to mix with air
> and changes our bones, skin, clothes
> to gases. Doctor,
> if only you could see
> how heaven pulls earth into its arms
> and how infinitely the heart expands
> to claim this world, blue vapor without end.
>
> - Lisel Mueller
>
>
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