‘Seeing the earth from the sky was like taking a new look at the world. It opened my eyes to another way of seeing, not only the land but the clouds too.’
The American modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe, quoted in Lisa Mintz Messinger’s book Georgia O’Keeffe (2001), on how flying in the 1960s inspired her to paint clouds from above.
Cumulus humilis spotted somewhere over Middle America by Melissa Belkin (Member 63,927).