Astonishing warm sunsets often surround our landscapes, actually, the main cause is air pollution. Small molecules, suspended in the air (aerosols) scatter more the short wavelengths and plus “Reyleigh Scattering”, generate red sunsets. Each painting is a sunset with a level of air pollution.
Metaphor used:
The infopoetry consisting of hyperrealistic oil paintings plays with the ambiguity between photograph and painting by focusing on the contrasting theme of natural-artificial. The painting resembles a photograph that fixes reality in a specific image. The repetition of the same subject moves the attention on the color of the sunset, which is the only difference between the three canvases, suggesting the viewers the theme to observe.
Intended Meaning:
I would like to emphasise the interesting contrast of this situation: sometimes what we mostly appreciate as a “natural miracle” is caused by our own negative operations. My communication intention is therefore to make people more aware of the causes of this phenomenon and to think about other similar tricky situations.
Source:
Several sources, mainly academic, scientific papers. e.g. Ballantyne, C. (2017) "Fact or Fiction?: Smog Creates Beautiful Sunsets", Scientific American
