I find this picture so hauntingly beautiful that I almost don’t want to write anything about it for fear my words would fall short. It is of a simple stone placed almost haphazardly on the steep stairs at my Aunt Sheila’s house.
To me it’s like poetry, a haiku, more evocative than representational. It is the celebration of an instant in time, in which a single element captured by the sun makes a big statement in the architectural landscape. It’s a lesson in the poignancy of the merest detail. A lecture in light. An exercise in how even the most fleeting moments of beauty can be the most powerful.
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It took you to notice the stone in that moment when the sun sliced down the stairs and caught it. It was on a high shelf above the stair which I liberated for other things but it is such an amazing stone [light on the top and dark on the bottom] I couldn’t toss it so I left it on the stair temporarily but your eye has given it intentionality and a permanent home!
Sheila
justine, your words are in fact perfect.