Angel Cloud Brushstroke of white on blue canvas— cloudburst in sky inspired me to create something synchronous such as the white puff of smoke above the Vatican rooftop— Pope Francis elected! Jorge Mario Bergoglio— Jesuit of Argentina. On the same day people saw an Angel Cloud at sunset in South Florida. Now I'm reading about dwindling winter monarch butterflies in Mexico— its co-author is poet Homer Aridjis whose book A Time of Angels turns my mind to Dante setting sail to deep seas unto the bread of angels with a breeze of wings well beyond the mind embraced by air, by light. — Peter Y. Chou     Mountain View, 3-18-2013

Brushstroke Cloud (3-16-2013) Foothill College, Los Altos Hills Gregorio Borgia (3-13-2013) White Smoke from Sistine Chapel Rocky Richmond (3-15-2013) "Angel Cloud" in South Florida Homer Aridjis (3-16-2013) A Time of Angels (2012)