Turner’s “East Cowes Castle: The Regatta Starting for their Moorings” helps me have a lot more empathy for the Lepidoptera because like them I am drawn right to the light in this piece and I can’t escape.

This painting has the most awesome and seductive light. Sitting in front of it i’m completely hypnotized and transfixed by it. Nothing else matters. I don’t have to think about anything I can just rest in this perfect luminosity. thoughts that arise can be carried off by the river or dissolve into the sun and I’m just left to rest in this perfectly illuminated spaciousness.