Sunset, Monday, 24 August 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

’Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Jimi Hendrix
“Purple Haze”

I had to laugh when I heard this again yesterday. Hadn’t ever thought of it in connection with the paintings.

People sometimes ask if there’s a meditative or prayer component to painting each day’s sunset. I could answer with a further lyric.

If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel.

U2
“Mysterious Ways”