The Invisible Link (continuation and conclusion)

Consequently, I could have selected lots of other views of clouds from my photo library. Clouds seen from the ground, at sunset or under moonlight, panoramic immense clouds or made Lilliputians by the camera’s framing, in full colours or monochrome. Images of clouds... So many that I could have selected, as meaningful, eloquent and seductive as that plane’s window photo that I had retained.
But it was that one which I had chosen and none other, on my first try and without a second of hesitation, and without even knowing why it should be that one. Today, I know why.

These clouds in an airplane window made me catch a glimpse of the invisible, indefinable vibration that I sometimes felt when I painted in the 70s and 80s to the music of Joni Mitchell. A link that appeared one second, already fled the next, but always leaving behind a trace of its passage. Although I know that blind chance and fortuitous coincidences do exist, I would have great difficulty putting this experience in these categories.

An invisible link with that music. A spiritual connection with the sensitivity that it expressed.

Like a door fleetingly ajar, opening to the light and revealing an infinite meadow of clouds, those contemplated from the window of an airplane by a painter "derailed by circumstances", and which that painter transcended into exceptional words and music -being also the musician of genius that she is.

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