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Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis Loren D. Adams Makawao, Hawaii, United States "Metamorphosis" C@2017 - 30"x 30" - ( 762 mm x 762 mm) Original oil on triple oil primed fine linen. Description: A coastal landscape / seascape depicting the eruption of a volcano in Alaska in the middle of a glacier with several icebergs adrift. It is an illustration of "Fire and Ice" extremes with a colorful palette of both the hot and cold sides of the chromatic spectrum, excluding green. The fire is convincingly very hot and the ice also very cold, It's a moonlit night with the Aurora Borealis AKA the northern lights in the top left by the moon, 3 days after it was full. There are stars in the sky with clouds billowing with an electrical storm and lightning, which is morphing into the full plume of hot ash clouds from the volcano, with molten lava and rocks spewing into the sky. There are several large icebergs in the painting, one that is reflecting both the light of the moon and the orange glow from the volcano's plume. Silhouetted against it is an older Brigantine sailing ship just waiting for the crew to return from a cave. There is a lava flow beginning to etch it's way down the slope of the mountain where it has already cut through the glacier with steam rising from the lava meeting the ice cold water below. There are lots of swells and wave action rolling in from the left circulating in, under, around, and through the sea water eroded caves and tunnels, and then eventually splashing onto the large icebergs on the right side of the painting where a large section is falling off "calving" and splashing into the foreground where the glaicer goes all the way to the top of the image. There are two highly detailed smaller bergs, one that resembles a saber tooth cat in the foreground which is disappearing into the water near the signature area of the painting. Remember that even though these two small bergs are only a few feet above the water level, that 90% or more are beneath and connected to each other and perhaps a larger berg behind us…

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Mark Peterson 27 Aug 2021

Love the color and lighting ~