Description
This artwork shows a Neolithic family leaving their homes in the very early hours of the morning on Solstice Eve, long before the rising of the sun, to gather at a solstice aligned megalith where they can observe the passage of the longest night.
These first farmers had a deep relationship with the land and the seasons. Their lives depended on working in close alignment with nature, so it seems fitting that they made their monuments work in literal alignment with the turn of the year.
Of course, there may not have been community gatherings at places like these 5000 years ago, this is just my interpretation. But to this day people still gather at the solstice aligned monuments to celebrate and watch the sun as it passes through them, so that is where I drew my inspiration from.
This is an 10″ x 8″ high quality giclée print, printed on beautiful Hahnemühle William Turner paper and signed by Shelly Mooney.
