The golden sunrise on this spring morning was very fully reflected from this grating, called Yellow Fin, near the artists’ home in Valparaiso, Indiana.

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Yellow Fin, Spring Sunrise

$250.00$805.00

Framing adds 1/2″ on the top, bottom, left and right of art.
Mounting includes an anti-UV coating.
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About the Artwork

This photograph of a cast-iron sculpture on a curb-side street grating was taken during a fall sunrise on a Valparaiso, Indiana street without trees nearby. This photograph is a favorite because the grating that morning beautifully reflected the golden sunrise.

Review written by Bill Teeple, Curator of ICON Gallery in Fairfield, IA for the IOWA SOURCE (© 2019 reprinted with permission):

This photograph (and others in this collection) “reveals the rich variety of colors and textures that appear in cast iron when photographed during the “golden hour” — in this case sunrise on a sunny fall day.

“The artworks are macro photographs of cast iron street gratings cast with a bas-relief sculpture of a trout and framed by the words “dump no waste” and “drains to waterways.” The gratings are a plea for the public to care for the environment.

“Cast iron exposed to the open air oxidizes in different ways, creating tens of thousands of mirror-like surfaces that catch incoming light at different angles and depths. The resulting images bring the viewer in close proximity to the delicacy of early morning and late afternoon light during various weather conditions and seasons. During this golden hour light, richer and brighter colors are revealed.

“Duncan and Carla Brown’s work is created using archival pigments, and displays the same ability as the original cast iron to reflect and mirror light at different times of day. Duncan Brown and Carla Brown discovered the gratings in 2018. Duncan has taken thousands of photos of gratings in the Upper Midwest, and Carla has been essential in editing the images.”