{"id":164392,"date":"2025-10-15T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuvomagazine.com\/?p=164392"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:37:08","slug":"toronto-artist-jon-sasaki-races-against-the-night-to-capture-landscapes-at-twilight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuvomagazine.com\/daily-edit\/toronto-artist-jon-sasaki-races-against-the-night-to-capture-landscapes-at-twilight","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Artist Jon Sasaki Races Against the Night to Capture Landscapes at Twilight"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are easier ways to paint a twilight landscape. You could snap a photo of the area, darken it in Photoshop, and paint in your studio. You could even use an AI prompt and be done with the whole thing in seconds. But Toronto artist Jon Sasaki<\/a> has always preferred doing things the hard way.<\/p>\n

For his new exhibition Making Do With the Photons That Linger After the Sun Has Set<\/em> <\/a>at Clint Roenisch Gallery<\/a>, Sasaki spent 10 months painting en plein air<\/em>\u2014in the dark. Using a 3D-printed black paintbox of his own design (\u201cthe readymade ones were too beige,\u201d he quips) and a palette limited to green, umber, navy, and grey, he worked outdoors through frostbite, mosquitoes, and the watchful eyes of coyotes and deer. Each of the 35 small panels captures the fragile half-hour of nautical twilight, when light dissolves, forms flatten, and the horizon disappears.<\/p>\n

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