On Horizons
"Wherever we go, we are friends" -Sloth and Manatee
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In the final shot of tons of movies, a character rides off, or drives off, or walks off, towards a distant sunset or skyline. The camera lifts up and we all gaze out and the credits roll and music plays.
It is like a shorthand for the future. Raising our sights toward a line between the land and sky, the farthest point away that we can perceive on our planet or our circumstance, somehow represents a progression toward things that have not happened yet. Time and space. Going beyond a boundary. Or, going to that boundary, and then stepping across it.
There’s nothing really inherently “future” about the horizon, it is a line. How does such a simple construct tell us so much? Some of it is cinematic language that we have learned. But a horizon is a boundary and also a suggestion of beyond. It’s also an invitation to expand. It’s as if our mind reaches out for it.
The horizon moves constantly, it is not a thing but a perception. It is like a bubble of space that we carry with us, and it morphs around depending on whether we are in a city, out on a lonely highway, or even just contemplating boundaries within our own minds.
Horizons are infinitely overlapping, because everyone and everything has them. Like drops disturbing the surface of a pond in overlapping patterns.
Sometimes we share a horizon, like when we stand with a friend on the beach and look at the ocean.
A horizon is such an interesting construct, and metaphor, and way of thinking. Where are your horizons? Where are the horizons that you have crossed? And can you turn and look back the way you came, and appreciate the past and the future all at once?
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All of the prints that are on display at the Orinda Library Gallery are now up for sale online! You can find them here. Sales benefit the Library and Arts Council! If you’re in the area, you can pick prints up when the show ends June 27th, or I’ll get em to you. Plus, I’ll be bringing any that I still have along to the Livermore Comic Con on Saturday June 28th as well. Art friends!!
The Print Shop also has a ton of these and they have sales a lot.
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Things Of The Week
When our cat Seven gets bored she starts shoving stuff off my desk which reminded me of this classic video (I didn’t realize the cat in this is also a calico, so there you go)
Hoo boy, trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s new Frankenstein movie - this should be pretty darn fun.
Yeah, weather services are being defunded and shut down, so here’s a very retro service that a fellow named Matt has put together for you, be sure to unmute to enjoy the marvelous backing music
Okay! That's enough nonsense for now.
May you look toward the horizon, may the horizon look toward you, won't you be my neighbor? - Betsy
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