Before night falls by Cristina Dalla Valentina

Before night falls
watercolor on paper
12,9" x 12,9"

«The most poetic times of the day for the landscape artist (and perharps for anyone) are dawn and dusk, the beginning and the end of light. [...] In the evening, the last moments of late light succumb to the spreading shadows as the sun is swallowed by the horizon. Color drains off the landscape inch by inch, reclaimed finally by the sky. This is dusk, when the sun is gone, but for a brief time, the sky holds out a magenta and alizarin valedictory to the day. It is when hedgerows darken as woody shrubs give up their final warm shaft of light. Quiet pervades, and after the last bird song lifts into the cooling air the frogs take up their chorus, a prelude to the soft nightlong music of peepers and cicadas. No more sunlit ripples on the pond. Night quiets, then claims the landscape, a metaphor for rest, or for welcome death. When light disappears, we are also faced with a melancholy reminder that we must give up our claim on the day».
Elizabeth Mowry, The Poetic Landscape 

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