Portents

On November 11, 2025, I stood in my back yard in Northeast Texas and watched as the Northern Lights lit the sky, an experience I never expected to have. It was awe inspiring in the truest sense of the word. The Portents triptych is my visceral reaction to the experience of a lifetime.

Of course, I knew what I was looking at - there had been website updates, weather reports, and social media posts anticipating the event. Even so, it was breathtaking and slightly unsettling to have my accepted reality shattered by a night sky suddenly an odd color. I couldn't help but wonder how an ancestor of long ago would have reacted and what significance they would have attached to it all.

Oil paint and cold wax medium on cradled board, 8x8x1.5", November, 2025.

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