for the longest time i have wanted to start a collection of angels.
i love angels for some strange reason.
when i think of them, i think of the sound snow makes when it is falling (this throws my head into some lonely little tangent, but i digress)
why is it then, that almost everything i can find to do with angels centers around angel babies or small child-like angels?
essentially all that is is dead babies and dead small children.
nothing peaceful about that, now is there?
i love angels for some strange reason.
when i think of them, i think of the sound snow makes when it is falling (this throws my head into some lonely little tangent, but i digress)
why is it then, that almost everything i can find to do with angels centers around angel babies or small child-like angels?
essentially all that is is dead babies and dead small children.
nothing peaceful about that, now is there?
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But I can recommend some angel-related artistic works that eschew the stereotypical views of angels....
Wim Wenders' films Wings Of Desire and Faraway, So Close provide a meditative look at the state of modern Germany, and human existence in general, through the eyes of angels who watch over the city of Berlin. (Stay far, far away from the American remake of Wings Of Desire, the Nicolas Cage/Meg Ryan vehicle City Of Angels)
Wenders's vision of the angels in the films was very much inspired by the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, particularly the Duino Elegies. I recommend the Stephen Mitchell or Edward Snow translations of the Elegies.
Angels of this Rilkean variety are what springs to mind when i consider your thought of "the sound snow makes when it is falling". Brooding, removed, silent observers of human existence. Their touch on reality is about as soft and pure and minimally consequential as snow.
And the young-adult novel A Wind In The Door, the sequel to A Wrinkle In Time (that book by Madeline L'Engle that almost everyone read while in junior high), features an angel of the more authentically-biblical cloud-of-wings-and-eyes variety as one of the principal characters.
And I heartily endorse ChaosMonkey's recommendation of Murder Mysteries. Anything Neil Gaiman or P. Craig Russell set their pens to tends to come out brilliantly.