The midnight sun glows black – three prophetic paintings

For years now, Ed Saye has been painting something that felt like prophecy. And suddenly, we’re standing in it. That uncertain light – new dawn or slow apocalypse? His figures move through landscapes that ask: who are we now? What were we? What does the future hold, if it holds anything at all?

Three new works by Ed Saye share this liminal light.

Is it daybreak?
Dusk?
or apocalypse?

A midnight sun glows – black. A crazy golf course, uncoordinated figures moving with their clubs in different directions.

Two low, round orbs – are they suns? Artificial lights? It’s difficult to tell.

Someone’s making a barbecue. And down on the lawn, under the shade of the trees is that someone doing tai chi?

And then there’s the little house close to the shore under that block of black light pouring from what should be the sun – or is it the moon?

A black hole where radiance should be… and the little goat. Just… there.

This one feels like a masterpiece to me – totemic in the way it captures collective consciousness at this threshold. A lightning conductor for the divide: those still asleep, running the old scripts as the old world order collapses, and those already awake – choosing love, nature, community.

The new dawn is here.