Atmospherics

Erik Oct 20, 2008 — 85 comments

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So I take a lot of pictures of the sky. It’s amazing to me what refracted light can do in an atmosphere. I took all of these pictures with a regular digital camera, all of the colors are almost exactly as I saw them that day, there was no photoshop work or digital altering of any kind.

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Most of my landscape paintings have an obvious emphasis on the sky, for a few reasons. The most important being that it can be visually interesting, and can very effectively create a mood, a feeling, can rouse something powerful and evolutionarily primeval in a person when they see it. The sky’s been around a lot longer than we have, and as long as we have been around, we’ve been looking up at it.

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I’m generally drawn to a sky that is sort of nonspecific, where you can’t really tell if it’s late afternoon, early morning, if the sun is rising or setting. If you’re standing in your yard looking up, you’re aware of your existence in a very specific concrete physical setting, into which you project your own feelings/thoughts about time; you naturally and automatically know what time of day it is and what is going on. A painting, on the other hand, is its own self-contained physical setting, which is narrow, and can be infinitely interpreted. The only information you get is what is in between the edges, and unless you name your painting “Thursday, 12:47pm,” (or 4:16 ), the viewer has to decide for him/herself what time of day they think it is. Which is why I generally go for transitional-looking sky scenes like sunrise and sunset. If you give the viewer too much information, the painting can be quickly dismissed. I like to try to give just enough to catch their eye, then to maybe stir something in them that makes them want to think about it a little more deeply. Some people want to “figure it out,” to somehow find the “answer,” to determine exactly what is going on, what time of day it is and what it all means, like a puzzle. Others enjoy identifying the feeling or mood the image evokes, which is a very personal thing, a reflexive thing, and through which they then contemplate their personal relationship to that image.

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The more ambiguous the visual information, the more varied the response, which is my ultimate goal. Images that you see and say “that’s a pony,” then move on without another thought don’t really do much for me. Although I like pictures of ponies.

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Brett Oct 24, 2008

I like the pictures – this post reminds me of a series of dreams I had when I was a kid. The plot was different in each one, but they were all unsettling for the same reason; the light in the sky didn’t match the light of the landscape – most of the time it was a really dark, overcast day, but the ground was lit as if it were midday and sunny. This was never the main point of the dreams, but the aesthetic was completely disconcerting. I’m glad you asked me about that just then; otherwise it would have been like I was just rambling for no reason at all.

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