Reply #237: A Sudden Flash of Beauty in the Most Unexpected of Places! [View All]

[anonymeme]

Which I believe was inspired by the ancient artistic practice of using urine to plunge works of bronze, copper or brass into in order for them to achieve that perfect greenish bronze verdigris patina on them.

You know that Picasso had two bronze goats on his grounds that he had made for his children grandchildren to play with and a big joke for him was to tell the children to go pee-pee on the goats -- because he knew by doing that they were helping develop the patina on the goat!

I think the artist got the idea when he plunged a bronze cross into the fish-tank filled with urine that was used to create the patina on the artworks and in that moment in the creation of art, a shard of sunlight shined into the tank and the incredibly beautiful glow it created as if a veil of spirit surrounded the crucifix, was so overwhelmingly beautiful, he thought to photograph it, and to try other substances to see which gave the most luminescence and photographed the best of those!