Race 5 - Day 16
Crew Diary - Race 5 - Day 16
07 January

Discovering the light

Hi dear readers, family, friends and Qingdao supporters.

Today I would like to share with you an amazing discovery I made from sailing in the middle of the ocean. Last week, as I was on my night watch, a new day was awaking. Through a magnificent sunrise, I found myself contemplating the beauty and infinity of the sky and the sea surrounding me. I would have like to take hundreds of photos of this unique moment.

Like most people, I have been used to look at the sunset or sunrises with only a 90 degrees vision or so of that moment and never pay attention to what is behind me. For the first time of my life, I have become conscious a 360 degrees sunrises and discovered the beauty of the moving light in the morning and the purity of the colours.

The art of drawing and painting is in the art of bringing up the light. I felt an artist could paint or draw hundreds of different pictures of the sea and the sky alone together. I was seeing not only one sunrise but a succession of sunrises, with variations of colours and movements of the clouds and variation of light on the waves on the sea. I was seeing the clouds and the waves as dancing together trough perpetual movements.

With the discovery and consciousness of the light surrounding me, I felt to have discovered and free up the beauty of a form of light inside of me. A wonderful moment of peace, joy and contemplation probably unique to the middle of the ocean.

May you all have a wonderful day.