Songs of the Sky A5 1923

Alfred Stieglitz made "Songs of the Sky A5" with gelatin silver. Imagine Stieglitz, gazing up, framing the sky, waiting for the right song to form. It reminds me, you know, that the sky’s always singing, and he’s just tuned in. The clouds churn and swirl, each form ephemeral. The darks against the lights create a melody of shapes. The more I look, the more the clouds start to resemble bodies, or figures dancing. What was he thinking, looking up at these clouds? Perhaps he felt as though he was trying to grasp something just beyond reach. I bet he was trying to capture something of himself, too. Like Georgia O'Keeffe, his wife. Artists are always responding to one another, across time and space. And so this sky, for me, feels like an open question and a beautiful invitation.