Softening the Edges

If we don’t pay very close attention, our minds tend to edit what we see before we even realize that it’s happening. The temptation is to view the sun as a perfectly round ball with nice, neat, straight rays emanating evenly from the center. But the saying goes that Mother Nature abhors a straight line. The sun in fact - like so many other things in life - isn’t so neat and tidy. If we can stand the discomfort that arises when we confront the gap between what our thinking minds want to see and what is actually out there, then we stand to discover a wondrous richness that extends well beyond what we were trying so hard to construct with our intellects.

Plus I like a lot of color and it makes me happy to get up to my elbows in all my prints!

The sketch is based on photos of explosions on the surface of the sun taken by the observatory SOHO.