Great works of art and vapour: thinking big...

Rodin's Thinker started life as a study for a small figure to sit on top of the Gates of Hell.

bounded mountains

oils transpiring off the eucalyptus trees is what gives the brindabella mountain range their characteristic purple hue. in the ancient world, purple was a hard-to-get colour and usually involved milking the mucus from murex snails to produce tyrian dyes - a precious, but limited resource, reserved for royalty, and controlled by strict sumptuary laws. the sky has no such qualms about conspicuous sumption!