WORLD CYANOTYPE DAY

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""Fenêtre sur tour" - Cyanotype N°211"

by Julien Froidu

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Enlighten is a verb.

 

Mr. Hesse wrote of the young Siddhartha sitting under a fig tree.  So it is told and told again.  Did the light come from without or within?

 

Place a fig, it must be ripe, on a table directly within a shaft of light.  It appears to glow, glow from within.  The old Dutch Painters brought the light with them.  Did they too sit under the fig tree?

 

The lemon or the apple, even the cheese appear to glow from within.  Did the Dutchmen meet for sweetened coffee and talk of worldly things or did they simply sit, understanding the way of the painter, occasionally signaling the light of a melon or a reflection in a crust of bread.

 

Siddhartha did not go to Holland.  His words, “Be your own light,” travelled.

 

“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.” - Buddha

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