If you’re reading this within eight hours of it being posted, chances are, I’m on the plane to Toronto. (Yes: I scheduled this post in advance. Love that I can do that.) Probably I am feeling nervous, daunted, thrilled, and anticipatory all at once. And, since I’m likely on a plane, I expect I’m tired and dehydrated as well.
In honor of this journey we’re starting, here’s a little toast to seeing the world with new eyes. A few years ago Erik was driving us home from my parents’ house and I had a headache, so I took off my glasses. Suddenly the highway became a fairyland of circular rainbow-colored lights, appearing and disappearing across my field of vision. It was simultaneously magical and unnerving (and it gave me new sympathy for cats when we take them in the car; the view outside can be terrifying when you don’t know what it’s all about).
A couple of weeks ago I was headachy and glasses-off in the car again, and I was telling Erik how sad I was that this view was something I couldn’t share with anyone. I couldn’t paint it, since that would require light and putting my glasses back on; if I tried to photograph it, it would just look normal to everyone else. He suggested I put my glasses backwards in front of the camera. Voilà!
What a clever idea — and it worked beautifully! (Love the music too) Kudos – again – to Erik.
Thank you, Sherry! Kudos to Erik indeed. I would never have thought to try it, but it’s so brilliant. Glad you liked it. 🙂
So exciting to see it all– fuzzy, tinted, or crystal clear–through your eyes!
Thanks, Anna! 🙂 I’m so happy I could show it to you! I was thinking this was one thing I could never share with anyone!
Wow, the video is mesmerizing and the music haunting. What a combination.
Thank you, Alan! The music is by Paul Bowles, an American expat writer and composer, to songs by García Lorca. I came across the album by accident when I was taking piano performance class with Erik in college; I was looking for duets we could play together, and the library had Bowles’s Nocturne for Two Pianos. We never did play it, but I fell in love with the CD and ended up buying it.
Thanks for telling me what it is. I think I’ll get a copy too.
Hope you like it. 🙂