Rhapsody in Blue

Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)—
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.

– Robert Frost

I have found myself dwelling on the color blue and the way our planet’s elemental hue, the most symphonic of the colors, recurs throughout our literature as something larger than a mere chromatic phenomenon — a symbol, a state of being, a foothold to the most lyrical and transcendent heights of the imagination.

– Maria Popova

“Blue is light seen through a veil.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“Blue is the typical heavenly color…
The ultimate feeling it creates is one of rest…”

– Wasily Kandinski

“I saw in a blue haze all the world poured
flat and pale between the mountains.”

– Annie Dillard

“We love to contemplate blue,” Goethe wrote, “not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it.”

Blue is the unspoken language of universality,
seamlessly weaving through the expanse of
sky and the depths of water.

“No water, no life. No blue, no green”

– Sylvia Earle

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E X H I B I T I O N S

STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 –  Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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ICONS

Seaworks Maritime Precinct
The Main Shed
Melbourne, Australia

Wed, Feb 28, 2024 – Sun, May 26, 2024

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

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