The very aesthetic power shown in the thundercell over the plains of America is a photo taken by S.Heavey and one that I lifted off the internet several weeks ago and have been waiting before using it until there was an appropriate Windgrove connection.
I also lifted off the internet a detail of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel where he has painted the Birth of Adam and placed it below the thundercell in order to make a visual comparison between the two.
I would ask the reader to ponder this juxtaposition. Michelangelo’s God emerges from a whirling brain like pinkish cell similar in shape to the whirling storm cloud. The green cloth of lightning adds to the effect.
The question I like to ask is whether or not Michelangelo was as astute an observer of nature as his older contemporary Leonardo da Vinci? Did Michelangelo’s depiction of God as a powerful sky figure embedded in a vortex of cyclonic fabric emerge from his study of thunder clouds and, thereby, give him the divine inspiration to represent his God in this manner?
Paintings don’t just happen. Art originates from a source. This past week, as I looked up into a swirling mass of cloud, I definitely saw a charged fingertip exchange of energy between two clouds. If I were a painter, how would I represent this?
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