Night at the Museum

Thomas Morgan’s Sunset at Sea really struck me. I almost missed it, I saw it in my periphery and did a double-take. The composition is somewhat circular, the water arced around the sun, the clouds a mirror of that same arc. The spherical seascape speaks on the eternal nature of water. It always has existed, exists, and always will exist. It’s a cycle. However, the cycle is also constantly changing – a rolling and swirling body that is never the same in any given place. Because of this, I love how the sun’ and its glare are centered inside the circle of ocean and sky, the stagnancy of the sun, the fact that it is so unmoving, adds a level of complexity to the piece. For me this piece demonstrates the paradox of nature: it is always the same, and it is ever-changing.