Sketch while sitting with my husband at a refuge in the mountains near Falzarego Pass.
Mountains
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When the Heights are Hidden
Captured Through a Lens IX: Peyto Lake
Captured through a lens: IV
Captured through a lens: III, Sunrise over Mountains and Lake
Friedrich: Traveling Exhibit part II
More thoughts on works by Caspar David Friedrich from the Hermitage.
The Dreamer sits on a window ledge of a ruin. He is not inside the ruin nor is he outside the ruin. Inside the ruin are dead trees, while outside life thrives. The dreamer looks sideways, neither out of the ruin nor into the ruin. Is this not true of a dreamer, of someone who lives half in the metaphysical realm