Van Gogh's Turbulent Connection to Starry Night

Starting to understand creation and the illusion of inner/outer

A team of scientists in China and France recently discovered that swirls in Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night perfectly matched statistical models of turbulence.

Noting the coincidence, the physicists believed that Van Gogh found the pattern in nature.

Of course, Huang said, van Gogh would not have been aware of such equations but likely he spent a lot of time observing turbulence in nature.

And he surely did, but there’s much more to this story than outer observation.

At the time, Van Gogh was plagued with hallucinations and struggled to keep consciousness. To the point that upon completion of the painting, he cut off his left ear and committed himself to asylum.

So it would not be a stretch by any means to say that Van Gogh’s mental and physical world was turbulence at the time. And who could perfectly represent turbulence in the sky through painting better than someone skilled in the art who was intimately connected to it in their own life journey?

With Starry Night, we are left with an exceptional mirror into the world of Vincent Van Gogh at the time of painting. One that shatters the illusion between inner and outer.

All creation is like this.