The Art of an Eclipse

The eclipse was a big event yesterday. For many, it was a spiritual experience. On a normal day, the moon seems to hang in the sky, unmoving. But the eclipsed showed, in a spectacular way, how fast the moon is actually moving in space. And at totality, it got dark because the moon blocked the sun from view.

But an eclipse also reveals things. If you were lucky, it showed some solar flares and prominences (which you cannot see except during an eclipse).

In art, when shapes get eclipsed by other shapes, or by paint strokes, or by bleaching, or by incomplete printing, other things can get revealed, too.

New shapes can get formed.

New shapes can be suggested.

Your imagination gets lit up to see things that aren’t really there. Only you can imagine them. That’s one of the beautiful things about art… imagination and creation of new thoughts. An artwork’s interaction with you can be a spiritual experience, eclipsing the everyday.