The Midnight Sun

Human Tragedy.

Meet Norma, from "The Twilight Zone - The Midnight Sun"

Norma is an excellently constructed character that finds herself in the days of the apocalypse awaiting a slow death through heat exhaustion brought on by the reduced distance from the earth to the sun.

The picture captures Norma at her worst, minutes before her demise as she sits on the floor staring towards the ceiling of the room that had once sheltered her, protected her from the world, but now serves as nothing more than an oven that will eventually become her final resting place.

Norma's expression goes so far beyond her current situation into a projection of humanity where the world at large is screaming towards the ceiling in an ever-increasing oven that threatens to bake us all. I love the expression as it signifies how helpless we are in the grand schemes of tragedy that plays out in the form of our lives over and over and over and over...

I imagine she would be crying in that situation, that is if she still had tears left to shed. Not only does the extreme heat of the sun burn off all your precious fluids but it also dries the tears from your eyes so that it not only robs you of your essence, but it robs you of your screams. It robs everything, like a sponge it sits there absorbing everything it can from you, your dreams, your possessions, your tears - like a black hole it absorbs it all and you merely find yourself sitting on the floor staring in hopeless agony towards an unrelenting ceiling.