my favorite colors
the artwork of monica noll
acrylics
- 2011
- starting
- 2009
- ocotillo
- 2008
- blue leaf
- chair
- soft
- sulfur
- window
- 2007
- weber
- 2006
- blue + yellow
- corridors
- eyelashes
- revenge
- white lines
- 2005
- buttons
- loneliness
- the mutualists
- red
- 2004
- bright future
- crane
- krautrock
- liquid v solid
- money
- nine to five
- sid + guitar
- twitch
- weltschmerz
- 2003
- black trees 1-4
- govt housing
- guilty businessman
- hush
- julie + violin
- london
- 2002
- cape buffalo
- chartres
- cupism
- 2001
- eclipse
- 1997
- tiger cubs
2001
acrylic on paper
35½ x 55½ cm
explanation
Zambia, June 21, 2001: The beginning of the eclipse wasn't incredibly interesting, but the lighting was very strange; at one in the afternoon it looked and felt like sunset. But it was kind of different, too, like someone was shining a bright light from all directions around the horizon. I guess it was different because there was no color in the light. At sunset you get reds and oranges and yellows, but before the totality it was just white light. It's amazing the aura that was in the field right before totality. Everyone was tense, nervous, anxious. I don't think anybody breathed. It's amazing when so many people are focused like that. It reminds me of the Native American legend where the whole villiage circles around a tree, and focuses all of their energy and attention on it until it bursts into flames. I half expected the sun to blow up. Then the moon slid over the sun, and cries of pleasure, those oo-ahh sounds mothers make, flooded the field. God, it was incredible. The corona was huge, and white light was splayed around the moon. The sky was medium-blue, an amazing color, not dark or light, just blue. And best of all, oh, was the sunset. I turned around in circles to look at it--a sunset on all sides. The earth was on fire. It was so gorgeous.