In the early evening, the heat of the day amasses, soaking the earth and sky. Rays of sunlight are slanting across the landscape from the West. Insects are dancing and swirling, catching the light as they frolic along the banks of the river. I feel like the dog days of summer still have us by the tail.
I decided to reimagine the colors of this photo to capture how I was feeling at that moment. I was inspired by the painting by Pierre Bonnard titled The Bay of St.-Tropez and an excerpt from a book that aptly interprets the artwork: “…These dense colors, this solar atmosphere, this sea of strong yellow with its reflections of red clouds, evoke for the spectator the tepid weight of summer hours, the insidious saturation of the skin, the languor of intemporal holidays.”
Reference
The Editors of Realites, Impressionism. Chartwell Books Inc., 1973.
