Musical accompaniment: The Rain, Cello and Piano performed by Gun Chaikittiwatana on the piano and Supanee Sonchaiwanich on the cello. A recording of a recital in November of 2015.

Look at this wonderful picture from 1911 by Edward Steichen.

He called it Balzac, The Open Sky. It looks like a man facing his destiny.

It’s almost a triple work of art. The figure in the picture is a depiction of the French novelist and playwright, Honoré de Balzac, created by the great sculptor Auguste Rodin in 1898.