August 21st has finally arrived, and as we gathered in parks and streets in Nashville, I did my best to capture the illuminating textures of the sky on digital format during the full solar eclipse. While the atmosphere of the eclipse was something felt and witnessed with all the senses, the visual spectacle of the overlapping celestial bodies is something I felt was a duty as an artist to capture and share.
Enjoy these digital photographs of the transitioning partial eclipse and its much anticipated complete covering of the sun. The wisps of the sun's corona suggest an eye within the sky, and open the viewer to a new way to see our familiar star. There for a few moments and then over, the eclipse is only preserved in memory and the fleeting images taken during the 1 minute and 56 seconds over the skies of Nashville, Tennessee.
2017 Full Solar Eclipse (Square Format), 2017. Tyler A Deem.
They are not just images but symbols of our changing perceptions... as reminders to the grand and sublime, the explicable and the anomalies of nature. Only when we witness something new can we understand better where we came from, and for me this experience is one that reminds us of our dependence on light and the source of energy that comes from the sun.
Peaking Solar Eclipse, 2017. Tyler A Deem.