This is a living and animate bas-relief, an animate work of art, gilded at sunset.
As counterpoint, the limpid turquoise ocean sits Buddha like in perfect stillness, simply mirroring beauty to beauty.
This is the golden hour beloved of artists, poets and dreamers.
It is the final act of magnificence at the end of another day on our small blue planet.
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