Red Aurora
Red Aurora is based on a section of Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata K365.
The text on the painting comes from Book 3 of W. B. Yeats' The Wanderings of Oisin:
Came by me the Kings of the Red Branch with their roaring laughter and songs.
In this scene, Oisin and Niamh are on the island of forgetfulness and have been charmed into sleep by a bell branch. They lie down in a field with giant fallen gods, and they dream with them of their adventures and conquests. In the very end of Book 3, Oisin refers to this dream of the Red Branch Kings again, telling St. Patrick he would rather go to hell with them than repent from his wanderings with Niamh and thus achieve St. Patrick's offer of a Christian heaven.
In this case, Red Aurora takes on the colors of an actual, but rare red aurora borealis in Alaska.
See a red aurora in real life here, by Greg Hensel
In this case, Red Aurora takes on the colors of an actual, but rare red aurora borealis in Alaska.
See a red aurora in real life here, by Greg Hensel