Photographs captured in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
The pink is extraordinary. Most aurora is green — the sky's default, produced by oxygen excited at typical auroral altitudes and the colour visible on many clear nights at high latitudes. Pink appears when a solar storm is powerful enough to push auroral activity lower into the atmosphere, where nitrogen begins to fluoresce. Nitrogen glows pink and red. It mixes with the green above it. The curtain's lower edge blushes. The whole display warms.
It requires a large storm. It lasts minutes. Most people never see it in a lifetime.
On these rare nights the pink and green move together with a softness that feels intentional, organic, alive — great billowing folds that open and gather across the northern night sky in shapes the body recognizes before the mind has words for them.
These images ask nothing of the viewer except presence, as one does when witnessing in real life — the willingness to stand before them and receive what nature offers on these rare and electric nights. Feminine, abstract, overwhelming in their delicacy. The infinite rendered intimate.
Moments of amazement, held still.
Moments of amazement, held still.
FLOW 1-12
Edition of 3 - 60in x 45in
Edition of 5 - 36in x 27in
Edition of 3 - 60in x 45in
Edition of 5 - 36in x 27in
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Edition of 3 - 72in x 48in
Edition of 5 - 36in x 24in
Edition of 3 - 72in x 48in
Edition of 5 - 36in x 24in
