The Sky’s Not the Limit (1) (Sunset, Monday, 30 August 2010)
Monday, August 30, 2010 at 09:08PM
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William Van Doren, The Sky’s Not the Limit (1) (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

I added the numeral in parentheses because I have a feeling I’ll be using the title again. It’s related, in a way, to the dark areas people often call borders – and maybe that’s what they are – ultimately they’ll be whatever people say they are. To me they’ve always represented something beyond, or beneath – a substrate of what we call reality – a place from which our experience emerges at every moment. Of course, it’s also a border.

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