A very striking and interesting piece, Nufocus !
The colors are strong and beautiful, as usual, and the hazy slightly distorted dark buildings in the background are nicely balanced by the lighter ambiguous foreground, IMHO. The bright blues in the sky keep the piece from being somber and lend energy to the already energetic scene.
What I ‘see’ in the painting, with no apologies.
Speaking from a broader overall total personal impression, I get the feeling that you might have been viewing “stuff online” that showed a ‘peaceful demonstration’ in one of our once proud cities where only 150 stores, homes, small businesses and public buildings were being burned and destroyed and the police, firefighters and first responders and other deplorables were being attacked.
The tilt of the buildings, and the appearance of a purple ruin of what could be a burned out church and reddish brown ‘smoke’ on the right, as it all appears to me, suggest that the foreground depicts the mob and confrontations.
It also could be a latter day version of the French Revolution.
A slightly different view is that the foreground shows a clear cut deforestation of the trees in a city park for the purposes of urban renewal.
Just my 2 cents
(cheerful, huh?)
I couldn't help riffing. I love this work.
