Anthropocene Mountain - Framed by Tom Rossiter: January 16, 2020

The sun slips between the towers and the water below takes a copy.

January 16, 2020 is a framed work from Tom Rossiter's Anthropocene Mountain series, made around 2020 and framed in cedar. Many works in the series take their titles from dates, like entries in a journal kept about the sky. A low winter sun burns orange behind the Chicago skyline, with rays fanning out through dark clouds. Below, the buildings repeat upside down in blue, as if hung from the horizon. The charred black cedar frame has a crackled surface like alligator hide. It is 16 inches wide and 16 high.

A January evening, framed before it could get any colder.