His colors became darker and darker, as if he were bringing us to the threshold of transcendence, the mystery of the cosmos, the tragic mystery of our perishable condition.
The silence of God, the unbearable silence of God.
— Dominique de Menil
These words are from ‘The Rothko Chapel: Writings on Art and the Threshold of the Divine’. Dominique de Menil is the co-founder of The Rothko Chapel.
Today, I explore the nature of the unbearable silence of God, of Rothko, and of our own practice of silence, sharing a short period of silence at the end.
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