Natur's Cycles

5.50pm Hatfield at bus station near my uni

4.50am In my daugter's room's window

4.50pm In my area

 It was believed in some cultures that worshiped the sun. The Aztecs believed that the sun was eaten by a God each night, and recreated each morning. So that the God was pleased and allowed the sun to shine upon the Earth again, they also thought that by sacrificing they could please the God, in fright of there being no more sun.  They therefore saw the sun rising each morning as a new birth, and the sun setting as its death. It also symbolizes good light and evil darkness; knowledge light and ignorance darkness; creation light and destruction darkness; a beginning light and the end darkness.

In belief of that, sunrise and sunset represent birth (life) and death. The colors especially support this philosophy. With sunrise being bright, alert and full of good emotions. Where as to comparison with them in sunset, the colours get darker, stronger, and give off and danger emotion but this can also be seen as calm or romantic and opposite of sunrise. This puts a line between the two making them seem so different.

 To me its interesting for these individuals that have no line, putting a difference between sun rise life and sun set death, because I see their start colours to be the same tone and their only difference to be the ending which is a start of another one except emotion it gives up.

In my practice I took photographs of sunrise and sun set.   Throughout this, I had learnt that there is no difference between sunset and sunrise; it was just the after effects that were different. This gave me an insight on how life and death is also in this cycle, with sunrise as birth and sunset and death, they also have the similar after effects, which is the only thing that makes them different and how power of science with technology can affect the tradition cultures.