The sketch for this painting comes from prep work for my 2023 show ‘The Rain has Changed’. This body of work imagined human-made objects to have found their way into the weather cycle, evaporating and falling, causing chaos and destruction in their path. Here, propellers or perhaps wind turbines, often seen standing out at sea, are rising out of the water against a cloudy, changing sky. It is unclear whether it is sunrise or sunset, and therefore, according to the old wives tale, it could be either a shepherd’s warning or a delightful spectacle. I think it sits somewhere in between. The way the turbines draw upwards or ‘evaporate’ towards the clouds feels relatively steady and spirit-like, yet this painting is full of eeriness, anticipating the inevitable violence of their fall back to earth.