Sunset, Tuesday, 10 November 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

Cutting firewood this mild afternoon, after the noise of the chainsaw, I heard the silence of the clouds as they held in color and muffled sound, keeping everything still and strangely immediate. I could hear my heart beating from the work of swinging the splitting maul. Under the quiet containment of the clouds it seemed that the leaf colors and the heart sounds were one thing.