Today is Hurricane Supplication Day in the Virgin Islands.
The day is officially set aside to pray for protection from storms during the hurricane season.
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Hold onto Your Hats!
Today is Hurricane Supplication Day in the Virgin Islands.
The day is officially set aside to pray for protection from storms during the hurricane season.
Artist John Divola depicts his version of extreme weather in today's photograph. Divola is interested in the relationship between things that are natural and that which is constructed. In Cyclone on the Beach a crudely constructed, conical object appears to balance awkwardly on its point in front of a flatly painted landscape. Here, Divola illustrates not an actual cyclone, but our preconceptions of a cyclone.
Source: Martha Ronk. "Fooling with Mother Nature." Artweek (1 February 1990): 14-15.
Pictured: John Divola, born 1949, Cyclone on the Beach, 1987, Polaroid Polapan print on paper, 26 3/4 x 21 7/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation.