to push children, like a god, from its eye.
As the night sky increasingly becomes flooded with artificial-light pollution, this poignant work helps us reconnect with the natural darkness of night, an experience that now, in our time, is fading from our lives. Even the moon bulges in its orange irons. But how many of us have taken the time to truly know a starry night? To really know it.Ĭombining the lyrical writing of Paul Bogard with the stunning night-sky photography of Beau Rogers, To Know a Starry Night explores the powerful experience of being outside under a natural starry sky\-how important it is to human life, and how so many people don’t know this experience. The darkness is a reminder of the ebb and flow, of an opportunity to recharge, of the movement of time. The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rmy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.
No matter where we live, what language we speak, or what culture shapes our worldview, there is always the night. Over the course of time, continents have formed and eroded, sea levels have risen and fallen, the chemistry of our atmosphere has changed, and yet the daily cycle of light to dark has remained pretty much the same. For millennia, the night sky has been a collective canvas for our stories, maps, traditions, beliefs, and discoveries. “Against a backdrop rich with purples, blues, and shades of black, a blaze of stars glittering across a vast empty sky spurs our curiosity about the past, driving us inevitably to ponder the future.
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