Floating White Orbs 1975

Painted by Alexander Calder, sometime in the 20th century, *Floating White Orbs* feels like a set of directions. You know: bright yellow sun, a red horizon, and then these floating white orbs, like two ping pong balls mid-air. I imagine Calder having fun making this, mixing his colors and applying the paint directly to the surface. There's something charmingly simple about the shapes—they are what they are. No big mystery, just a feeling of lightness and play. I love how the colors really pop. Yellow against red, black stripes against white circles. It's like a visual playground! Calder was famous for his mobiles, sculptures that moved and danced in the air. And you see that playfulness here, too, a sense of objects in motion, of energy and balance. What’s so cool about painting, and about Calder’s work, is how one artist's idea can spark another’s, how we’re all in this conversation, trying to figure out how to make something new. It's like we’re building a world together, one brushstroke at a time.