This painting is like sliding down a glacier. It stings.
Arctic air clasps your neck but you lean into the burning pain. A flash of blue and shard of black. Arms up. Hands waving away the sunlight as you descend into a blinding tunnel.
I hope we never reach the bottom.
This is Arboretum Present White Dogwood by Alma Thomas. Photo taken at the Baltimore Museum of Art during Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art exhibit.
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