Blue

Noah Ledvina

On Millard Sheets painting, 1978

A barren sky, null of emotion is painted with two measly grey

clouds standing in observance of the expansive emerald

landscape. The summit of the more prominent mountain

infinitesimally close to reaching the not so great heaven

presented to us.

 The seemingly endless water protrudes far into the

background and crawling beneath my feet, creating a sense of

microcosm. In front of myself, tragedy occurs, bones of a

bygone age lay lifeless clinging to the nutrients of the

very thing that resulted in your color, your meaning, your

soul being stripped from you. You look dismal being in such

a sorrowful state, a shadow or shade of your past self.

Seagulls soar low to their God, their friend, their

benefactor, the birds represent us in our pursuit of what we

call “life”. The reflectionless birds, the soulless birds,

the unfeeling birds represent how we want life handed to us,

we don't want to work for it, we want to be directed, we

want to be given orders to follow, we want a leader, we want

an autonomous life. The azure landscape instills a wonder in

you, a wonder of what's to come and a wonder of your past,

were those actions truly mine? In all the gloomy greys,

bashful blues, and godawful greens the turquoise entrusts

us with a sense of belonging, a sense of good times to come.

The brightest color in the piece must mean something right?