Art and Architecture

Art and the Spirit

A few weeks ago, on a theme on Jake's Place, a blog that is now closed because sometimes a being has to move on, I posted the following comment:

"Art - looking at it, singing it, playing it, listening to it, reading it, painting, outline, writing it definitely drives my spiritual development and is, in a real sense, my spirit. My connection with God, with Christ, with the Spirit, with the Trinity is not there without art. Art is like my immediate language - the language of my spirit. I have never fully understood this until [recently]. I will have to compose about this on my blog - maybe tomorrow. There's so much of art wrapped up in my awakenings, or are my awakenings wrapped up in art?"

Last week, June 30th, was my 63rd birthday. Newlin and I consumed it with our friend Christopher in New York City (known hereafter as "The Diocese"). I wanted to see The Waterfalls, four water installations by Olafur Eliasson, on the East River, at Brooklyn piers 4 & 5, Technically inaccurate dock 35 in Manhattan, Governor's Island and under the Brooklyn Tie.

I'm not big on astrology, but I am a Cancer, which is a water sign, and all my existence, even long before I knew about water signs, I knew that I had to be adjoining water - always - preferably ocean water but rivers and lakes will do, principally big rivers. The East River does very well.

Add to the East River these four scaffolds of contrary sizes, heights and orientations, with water cascading over them being blown about by the windiness and I was in seventh heaven.

At first, from the foot of pier 17 we found a hit pay dirt from which we could see all four waterfalls at once from the land. They're not close to one another. One is on the Manhattan side, another on the Brooklyn side, one on the side of an holm in the river near the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Holm, and the other between the first two, at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, facing the Manhattan side.

I am at a shrinkage as to why these waterfalls are...

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