Witching hour, 2024
Oil on canvas
The painting Witching Hour was inspired by observing photographs taken in the arctic circle of the midnight sun. Through long exposure photography, pictures encompass the movement of the sun above the horizon. In the end we are left with a picture that shows 5 suns nearing to dusk, but not quite reaching it.
Such image opens an interesting view of documentary photography. On one hand, we use it to explain and prove certain laws of nature or preserve a memory of an event, but on the other hand we receive images that are fictitious in their essence, as a landscape with five or more suns.
So, the origin of this painting, is real, but the outcome of its depiction is more of a mirage. The painting Witching Hour brings us to a hypothetical reality, one which we can find only in imagery. It combines elements of a genuine Lithuanian landscape with the supposed visions of midnight suns. Seeing painted images as imitating the world, the painting itself then becomes part of it, creating a new sort of reality. Through the painting process this explores the creation of real within artificial.
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