Turner’s "East Cowes Castle: The Regatta Starting for their Moorings”

March 9, 2020 Peter Makela

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.

Morandi at Tornabuoni Art London

March 9, 2020 Peter Makela

I suspected that this is a perfect painting but after sitting with it I am now certain. The cluster reminds me of the naked ancient remnants of the forum. Like those ruins I saw as a kid these too possess stories and a hidden life I will never be able to decode. The vessels are open but I am never granted the opportunity to look inside.

Bellini's "The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr”

March 9, 2020 Peter Makela

It’s always interesting to see what I want to see and connect with in the museum. There are many old friends who I respect but who I don’t particularly want to spend time with.