During the creation of this painting, Konrad Mägi is on the island of Saaremaa, in the sunniest place in Estonia. He spent two summers in Saaremaa, and we don’t know which summer this work was created: either the first, very rainy summer, or the second, very sunny summer. Is the sun shining through the clouds here, or is it hanging undisturbed above the horizon?

Mägi looks directly and undisturbedly towards it, the sun is right in the center of the frame, and the entire landscape loses its clear contours and details in its glare, as if it were beginning to fade. This painting is about the sun and only the sun, and the sun here is both captivating and dangerous, enchanting with its blazing light and threatening with its totality.

It is either a rising or a setting sun, with clouds in front of it scattering reddish light everywhere, turning a common meteorological phenomenon into a spectacle and amplifying its emotional and dramatic impact. The painting is small, Mägi probably painted the work directly in nature as an immediate reaction to something he has just seen. He doesn’t want to contemplate about nature and weather, but quickly convey an experience, a shock, perhaps even a revelation.

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