The Winds of Wonder

On the Mountains

Immense retreats of silence and of gloom,

Hills of a sterile grandeur, rocks that sublime

In bareness seek the blue sky’s infinite room

With their coeval snows untouched by Time!

I seek your solemn spaces! Let me at last

Forgotten of thought through days immemorable

Voiceless and needless keep your refuge vast,

Growing into the peace in which I dwell…. 

Sri Aurobindo

Paintings by Marc Desplanque (Auroville):

Uttarakhand ranges and Manaslu peak — oil painting on canvas board, average size 60x 40, with some variations.