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WILLIAM VAN DOREN
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William Van Doren, Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 09:05PM | by BVD | in Sunset Paintings | Share Article | Comments Off ;)
William Van Doren, Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.
Summer evening’s falling in blue dust shadows from the watermelon-green trees, but this sun’s the after-image the day will see when it closes its eyes.
Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 09:34PM | by BVD | in Sunset Paintings | Share Article | Comments Off ;)
William Van Doren, Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.
Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 09:33PM | by BVD | in Sunset Paintings | Share Article | Comments Off ;)
William Van Doren, Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.
August is old summer, cumulative, thick, the sun standing, somehow blazing in the haze without an aura, a hot ghost.
Friday, August 6, 2010 at 09:40PM | by BVD | in Sunset Paintings, Sunsetology | tagged Blue Ridge, seasons | Share Article | Comments Off ;)
William Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.
Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 09:49PM | by BVD | in Sunset Paintings | tagged Blue Ridge | Share Article | Comments Off 
Incidental Meditation
Clouds are high blurry white against a bluish sky so glaring it’s almost gray. If I look into the pattern long enough it becomes a mandala that cancels thought and opens me to something – something I can’t quite identify. I can’t even tell if it’s coming from within or from outside. It makes me breathe, once, very deeply. Then I see (just after I write “It makes me breathe, once, very deeply”) somehow within and without are meeting, as if at the perimeter of my mind. They’re meeting and merging and I have nothing to say about it. I am merely a convenient venue for the merger.