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We The Living

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Oils on canvas
14 x 11"
2011


"Around her, a blue that did not seem blue, a color that was no color, that had never existed in the world she had known, stretched without end...and sometimes she thought the bluish whiteness was a huge wall closing in over her head."

"In the white mittens her fingers ached, her bones drawn tight, her joints squeezed as in a vise."

"She stopped short when she saw a tree, the long white pyramid of a giant fir, rising suddenly out of the snow...."

"Somewhere there was a border and it had to be crossed."

"...the blue snow billowed dimly against the sky... low hills undulating in the darkness."

"...a lock of hair moved, falling from under the white scarf...."

"She...went on, a...figure in a long wedding gown of lace white as the snow around her….red stains spreading on the white lace."

"A band of pink...rose over the snow, flowing up into a pale blue, a blue immensity of sparks twinkling….And the snow,...glittering softly. Long bands stretched,...shadows that seemed light itself, a heavier, bluer light…."

"A lonely little tree stood far away in the plain. It had no leaves. Its slim, rare twigs had gathered no snow. It stretched, tense with the life of a future spring, thin black branches, like arms, into the dawn rising over an endless earth where so much had been possible."

—Ayn Rand We the Living
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© 2011 - 2024 hank1
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the-eyes-of-Anna's avatar
wow this is a beautiful creation robert,i feel like i could dive into that gorgeous blue .