Sunset, Friday, 22 January 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

I don’t know what’s with all the subaquatic imagery lately: I was out in a big field this afternoon after the sleet and rain had ended, and the sun started to burn into the clouds in the upper southwest corner of the sky, creating a ring of thinning white in the deep cold gray. Soon I could see the sun glaring in the center of the ring. I had the sudden thought that God was going ice fishing, and all of us down here were the fish.