Anthropocene Mountain - Framed by Tom Rossiter: December 11, 2020

The sun sinks into the haze behind the towers and leaves the whole lower half to the blue.

December 11, 2020 is a framed work by Tom Rossiter in his Anthropocene Mountain series, made around 2020 and framed in cedar. In early winter the sun sets low and early, and a hazy evening can reduce a skyline to soft silhouettes. Orange light glows behind the faint outlines of the Chicago towers, the sun a bright spot between two buildings, under a sky of copper and gray clouds. Beneath a dark line of trees, the reflection dissolves into an almost unbroken blue. The cedar frame is charred and crackled. It is 16 inches wide and 16 high.

December, doing its best with the light it has.