The Lights above Us: A Light Pollution and Dark Sky Awareness Painting

 

The Lights above Us Acrylic Painting

The Lights Above Us
Acrylic on canvas
And a poem
By Syahirah Stargazer

The stars above us,
Continue to shine,
Even when we gradually drown,
Helplessly in our destructive artificial lights,

The stars above us,
Need none of us,
But we desperately,
In need of them.

When we're saving the night sky from light pollution, we're not doing for the stars above. We are doing it for ourselves, and all the living beings on Earth. Our actions are reflected to the nature around us, and the sky above. So, let's start saving ourselves from light pollution, one light at a time.

Actually this painting is a remastered version of the previous post in my social medias. I was dissatisfied on the Milky Way part of the painting, so I painted it all black and start over. 

Previous version of The Lights Above Us

I want the LIGHT ABOVE (the Milky Way) to look like a river of stars, stretching across the space, and the man-made light below, seems like insignificant dusts. Yet those dusts, our eyes are drowning in.

So there you go. Take it all in. The Milky Way with glowing colourful lights and dark tendrils, the seemingly moving clouds below and dots of lights at night, signing our existence, and downfall.