As I wrote, thought and created, I constantly came to ask myself certain questions. What is real? and how do we know that something is real?

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I was intrigued by the imagery that Jim captured in Black Sun. The more I thought about it, the more the subject of the film moves away from the sun. The subject quickly becomes the spaces that are affected by the sun. 

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A part of me wants to link the effect of the sun back towards my Expanded Art Forms project - commenting on the disruption that the sun causes to these places that are dominated by the sun. While the effect of the sun in Death Valley is well known, it would be difficult to call the effects of the sun a disruption - as, without the sun, the place wouldn't be as it is. 

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But does Black Sun by Jim Hobbs exists in our universe of discourse? The idea of a blackened sun doesn't actually fit with our knowledge of nature and reality. We know that are other massive solar objects that can be different colours due to the elements that they process, but the inclusion of the absence of colour occurs rarely.

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When presenting a world that doesn't apply the same rules of nature that we understand, is this world unnatural?