Last Light at Black Lake
by Steve Henderson
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16.000 x 20.000 inches
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Title
Last Light at Black Lake
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
What were you doing when the sun set last night? Or the night before? Did you see it?
Too often, we shut ourselves up at night, which to some degree is understandable because when the sun leaves, it often gets colder. It feels good to be inside where it’s warm.
But also too often, we shut off our minds as well, willingly binding ourselves to a screen of some sort: scrolling through our phones, playing a video game by the developer’s rigid rules, mentally glazing before an insipid show, numbing to the news.
All the while, the biggest show is going on outside. It’s in the sky as the sun sets, all around us as the light wanes, the shadows grow, the birds go silent, and – if we’re really really fortunate – the frogs croak, first one, then a couple more, then an entire symphony. This nightly event, which is never the same, is truly a magical time, a sense of the fantastic that is far, far beyond anything on our screens.
The artwork, Last Light at Black Lake, invites us to the show. It is twilight high in the mountains of Idaho, USA, in the Seven Devils Wilderness. The air is still, the surface of the lake calm and literally reflective. Along the lake shore we stop and simply look, watch as the colors change with the waning of the light. The very stillness of the landscape inspires a sense of stillness within us – as opposed to the agitation brought on by flickering lights, sinister music, cheesy laugh tracks, the intonations of actors behind news desks uttering that night’s message of doom.
Time slows down, our breath evens and deepens, and there is a rightness, a goodness about it all that inspires us to contentedly sigh and say to ourselves, “This is a good way to bring the day to a close.”
Featured on 21 Fine Art America groups, including Impressionism.
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July 21st, 2021
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