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December Twilight and December Midnight were painted in October 2026 as a pair of winter reveries. They came out of an interest in the blue hour, the threshold between day and night, which science links to the blue-light-sensitive cells in our eyes and the rhythms of sleep and waking. Poets, mystics and ancient fire-gatherers have long understood this as a time when the imagination is freed and we see by inner sight rather than outer.
Music was the companion while I painted, more for mood than as literal subject: two songs by Kate Bush, Snowflake and December Will Be Magic Again. I was thinking too of Arthur Melville’s ochre buildings against velvet blue skies and of Whistler’s Nocturnes.
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