"An Ode to Shangrilla"

"Her painting called 'Twixt Two Mountains' was inspired by a view from her room window. She said, "When the sun set, a shaft of light filtering through an opening in the mountains would light up just one part of the valley, as if it were a stage, and God's torch had lit it." Similarly a burst of flowers surrounding an icy cool, turquoise blue lake, personified a gush of feeling in 'An Ode to Shangrilla'."

-- Salwat Ali