Timelapse in a night city #2

by Hive Arts Studio

The second timelapse watches a city across the water as night turns over into day. The sky splits in two: deep blue and teal on the left, glowing pink and orange on the right, as if hours were laid side by side. Long diagonal streaks cross the dark half like stars tracing their paths.

The skyline is the fixed point. Its tallest towers gather right of centre, tipped with thin spires, and teal panels light their faces while thousands of small lights speckle the darker buildings. A slim tower with a sphere near its top stands alone on the left. On the water, horizontal lines of pink and violet light run toward the shore, smoothed by the long exposure.

The atmosphere moves from cool to warm as you read the picture from left to right. To me it is about that handover: the hour when a city is neither asleep nor awake, and you can see the time passing in the colour of the sky.

On a wall the wide skyline works as a horizon line, which calms a room. It may recall a city seen from a ferry or from the far bank of a river. The vaporwave pink, violet and teal carry well on white, grey or dark walls. It suits a living room, a bedroom, a home office, a gaming room or a hallway.