Sunsations are sensations of what the viewer thinks, sees, feels, experiences in sunrises and sunsets. It is deeper than commenting, That is beautiful! or usually an emoji heart. As a  photographer I at least feel desire when I go out and hope to have a good sunrise or sunset, but I too am drawn to the colors and magnificence. Why do I, why do we seek these moments in the midst of hurried lives.

It is special to me that most of all in Sunsations I collaborate with God in creating from Creation. And that without the inhuman touch of AI. I capture that dawn or dusk light in unique moments in space and time and thoughtfully digitally alter the photographs into the emotion they evoke in me in the process and mostly drawing in to the result.

I must continually attempt recognizing and evoking emotion in myself and it is best done through my arts and the other arts of music and cinema. As a child of neglect and abuse from both parents, I learned not to hope because it will disappoint. I learned not to be happy for there is always a catch or even a supposed weakness revealed in it.  When I moaned and dry heaved for the pain in my hips and back and the hours long one continuous cramp, I learned I must accept pain for whatever physical or emotional effect when I was told, "Shush! We can hear you all the way in another room," as the door closed. (After ten years of months of that someone inadvertently saw the effects and could tell me that it wasn't normal. It took five minutes for the doctor to say we need to get you in surgery.) 

Emotions were dangerous so must be contained and kept in the dark for years and years. By the time it was healthy and safe to feel, I lost all ability to recognize, do with it, figure out how to let them out and it is a messy job with years of therapy to rebuild the scaffolding to little by little by this way or that start to see inside myself to stop ignoring emotions and find ways to feel and know it is safe.

Every artwork potentiates sensations like those in a sunrise..