I planned a Twinkie follow up to yesterday’s Waffles but when I woke up to this nice red sky I felt like I needed to use it instead. So, that means that Twinkie will have to wait another day for her 15 minutes of fame. Actually, since only about 3 people read this it might be closer to 15 seconds, but she’s a dog, so she’ll have to take what she can get.
I’m not sure what a red dawn really means for sailors, but it is an omen of some kind. The thing is that omens mean different things to different people. I guess a superstitious sailor might have found something menacing about this morning, but I found it pretty striking and beautiful.
That difference in understanding is something I have been thinking about today as I have been working on some other projects. When I put together a picture I often have something that I want to get across, or a certain audience that I want to communicate with. I think that is kind of the point to displaying art, you want to connect with people. That can be incredibly intimidating, you never know how things are going to be taken. I guess you just have to hope that eventually someone will get what you are trying to say, or they will find something meaningful for themselves in what you do. Perhaps, someone will just find it nice to look at, and I guess that is enough.