It has other names – a dry storm, a virga, a shaft of dark clouds looking as if rain is expected.
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It all evaporates before hitting the ground -- not quite a mirage.
Monday, June 9, 2025
Dry Rain Revisited
The landscape features most prominently in the body of my work. It is a landscape of suggestion, rather than a faithful figurative rendering; it is a landscape of fiction and abstraction. Major influences on my work have been the Canadian landscape, the tropical forest of the Congo and the land of the Mediterranean/Middle East. Born in Exeter, Ontario,I studied at the University of Prince Edward Island, McGill University in Montreal and the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières.
I always ask one question; when does the unconventional become so utterly conventional as to become uninteresting - dull in fact? I hope these are not dull whatever else they are. Let me know what you think.
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Is the title metaphorical, or is this an actual phemomenon?
ReplyDeleteIt is an actual phenomenon officially called a virga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virga) also called a dry storm or dry rain.
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