the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line

in 1795, when shirley, massachusettes, was a community of 200 shakers living on three thousand acres, an outside observer recorded, "the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line, & as straight as they can be laid."inspired by visionary experiences, the gift drawings bridge the heavenly and the earthly spheres....imaging heaven as a perfectly balanced array of circles, squares, and

invisible birds (trees as moons)

behind the quivering reeds stirs the couch of birds-the green is near to black, the silver slightly blue. the tree-trunks are like old wall-stones, the leaves about like shadows(via gossamer)

four forward drifting down

al reinhart - for all mankind - 1989when the sunlight shines through the blackness of space it's black, but i was in sunlight, and i was able to look at this blackness. i mean, what are you looking at? call it the universe, but it's the infinity of space and the infinity of time. i'm looking at something called space, that has no end, and at time, that has no meaning. you really can focus on