The salt pillar - Claude Lavoie Photo

The salt pillar

The salt pillar

Ballet as a metaphor for life.

The unrelenting quest for elevation, every inch of it. The precarious balance, possible only through ceaseless motion. The resultant alertness and grace, an insight on beauty, the ephemeral victory of weightlessness over gravity, the closest a human being can get to flying.

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Date of photograph : January 2005