Makayla Lohman Passion Week 4

 

For this week, I found myself really inspired by the way the light filtered through the clouds on Friday morning after the rain. This picture was taken at 12:32 pm while traveling SW on Jeffrey Rd. Unfortunately, the picture doesn't really translate what my eyes saw and a lot of layers of the light were compressed artificially but the landscape itself contained an absolutely gorgeous sky in which the thickness of the clouds was widely varied and cast different forms of subtractive mixing. Where the sky was clear, obviously was a pure white light, displayed by the blue, while the thinner clouds didn't block much light, there were thicker clouds (sort of seen near the lower left corner) where the subtraction was so intense that it left entire sections of the ground below in a gray haze/shadow. 

I found the way the intensity was impacted by the clouds to be such a beautiful display of passion, and that might be due in part to the fact that I love the rain and the vibe that it creates. The transitions between darkness and light across seemingly random distances created a sort of stirring in my chest and painted a beautiful canvas with a lot of emotion. 

I found it kin to the various types of passion, the dark areas were more "angry" passion, how it shrouds everything below it in darkness and creates a heaviness that can almost be felt. The lighter areas speckled with thin clouds felt like an almost playful sense of passion, like when a child jumps between puddles, their movements haphazard and joyful, moving almost chaotically in different directions. Finally, the medial sections, not too dark, not too light, felt almost loving and paternal; I likened it to a mother's protective hug, shrouding from the exterior environment.