A jednak Kiężyc … back to the Moon

About ten days ago I drove hundreds of kilometers after the Sun. Sun – as you know – is very vane and proud, like a peacock. Blinds you with its glory. It comes as no surprise that a certain French king, after the construction of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors was named Louise the Sun. He regularly walked that famed Hall blinding with his majesty the poor subjects taking to himself: I am France! Of course, my journey with throngs of other people running to places where the total solstice was taking place – ended up being blinded by the god of the heavens. And the only pictures I took were of that small, black rock that covered the blinding god. Naturally, a glowing aureola of the god was still flaming in full glory. The poor, grey Moon seldom shows up during the daytime in the skies. It feels too timid, too embarrassed by its own greyness, and lack of splendor.

Hence tonight, at 2 o’clock, feeling a bit ashamed that I forgot my faithful friend – I took my camera and made a series of his portraits. As I used to do. I told him: you are beautiful and charming in your shyness. Thank you for lighting the old gas lantern in this dark mews.

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