Anthropocene Mountain - Framed by Tom Rossiter: Aurora - What If We Turned Out the Lights?

Green light pours down the sky and the city goes completely black beneath it.

Anthropocene Mountain, titled Aurora – What If We Turned Out The Lights, is a framed photograph by Tom Rossiter, ca. 2020, in a cedar frame. Light pollution from cities hides most of the night sky from most of the people who live in them, which gives the title its gentle point. The skyline here is a solid black silhouette across the center, mirrored below. Above it, broad curtains of green and pale violet aurora sweep through a starry blue sky, and their reflection streaks down into the lower half. The cedar frame is charred black. It is 33 inches wide and 33 high.

A modest proposal, beautifully lit.