Standing before Starry Night Over the Rhône at the Van Gogh Museum, I realised that some skies are painted with more life than the real ones above us.

Proof that some skies live forever, not above us, but on canvas.

In the Van Gogh Museum, I stopped in front of a canvas that felt alive.
Starry Night Over the Rhône is not just a painting — it’s a night sky that refuses to stay still.

The deep blues ripple like moving water.
The yellows don’t sit quietly; they explode like bursts of fire across the canvas.
The reflections in the river shimmer as if they’ve only just been disturbed by a boat passing through.

As a photographer, I usually wait for the right moment — the exact second when light and stillness align.
Van Gogh, it seemed, never waited. He painted the world as if it was already moving.

Looking at this work, I felt like I wasn’t standing in a museum at all.
I was standing by the Rhône, on a night where the stars wouldn’t stop speaking.