I can remember being with you once in England, in Eton, I think. For some reason the subject was hail stones. And you said: "I wonder how all that ice gets up there, and how it stays there until it rains". Over the years I've thought long and hard about that, my old friend.
Basically, the hot air on the ground keeps rushing up to lift the little bits of ice, and when they get up into the cold air they get a little bigger, and fall again, to where the warm air lifts them and they grow bigger...that's why it's in really hot rainy places like India and Texas that you get those 4 inch hailstones.
Must be exhausting for those iceballs - all that work, just to dent an SUV.
I always liked the idea of a big ice ceiling hanging there, waiting for rain...
I can remember being with you once in England, in Eton, I think. For some reason the subject was hail stones. And you said: "I wonder how all that ice gets up there, and how it stays there until it rains". Over the years I've thought long and hard about that, my old friend.
It was a good, simple question. And now we have this dude to explain it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzH4eIEREzY&t=29s
Basically, the hot air on the ground keeps rushing up to lift the little bits of ice, and when they get up into the cold air they get a little bigger, and fall again, to where the warm air lifts them and they grow bigger...that's why it's in really hot rainy places like India and Texas that you get those 4 inch hailstones.
Must be exhausting for those iceballs - all that work, just to dent an SUV.
Very enlightening. We greatly admire Piero's work.
It is otherworldly, since he is painting from another world.