"In the Gospel accounts of the Transfiguration—ground zero, as it were, for the onset of this "bright cloud" of agnosia—the cloud is shadow, Jesus's raiment a "glistering white." Yet for the the past two thousand years, in mosaic after mosaic, painting after painting, Jesus stands transfigured before his witnesses in the mouth of a glowing blue mandorla—a blue almond, or vesica piscus, the shape that, in pagan times,unabashedly symbolized Venus and the vulva."
—page 64, Bluets by Maggie Nelson
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