Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency

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Trying to see things properly

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Rosecrans Baldwin
Oct 23, 2021
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Seeing something, really seeing something, can be pretty hard to do.

Two weeks ago, I talked to a landscape painter in New Mexico. I asked how she began her paintings. She said she often started with shadows, a single shadow in the landscape, she’d try to identify its darkest spot, its deepest color—and from identifying that deep, dark color, she could …

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