South America 60s 60w

Creative Rationale

Over the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica, where fierce westerly winds batter the Southern Ocean in one of Earth's most turbulent maritime regions. The moderate wind speed of 10.1 m/s from the west-northwest creates aggressive diagonal slashes cutting across the canvas, while the unusually warm temperature anomaly of 18.2 K above normal generates violent collisions of heated flesh pinks and cadmium yellows against the cooler maritime palette. The low atmospheric pressure of 991.4 Pa compresses forms aggressively against the picture plane, with no precipitation allowing the thick impasto-like digital paint to build up in raw, unmediated passages of pure gestural energy.