SpaceX

Descent with Rainbow

A booster dropping through sunlit vapour with a faint rainbow curving opposite it, on its second flight.

Descent with Rainbow
Descent with Rainbow
Descent with Rainbow shown in a limewash reading corner beside an armchair and a floor lamp - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
Descent with Rainbow shown in a graphite plaster wall at night, lit by a console lamp - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
Descent with Rainbow shown in a beamed room with a greige plaster wall above a long oak sideboard - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
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Material
Size (cm)
Frame
Specification
45 × 30 cm
3 mm Aluminium
No Frame
Mount Kit Included
Price
$140

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About this work

This first stage was on its second flight. It had already launched the Telstar 19 VANTAGE satellite, and here it is coming back again, after sending the Es'hail-2 satellite towards geostationary transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center on 15 November 2018.

There are two subjects in the frame and they sit opposite each other: the stage descending under one engine into a bed of sunlit vapour, and a faint rainbow curving through the left third of the sky. The four lattice panels standing clear at the top of the body are grid fins, which orient the rocket during reentry by moving its centre of pressure. Rays of light fan down and right from the engine through the vapour.

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Materials

Metal
The edge of a Madtag aluminium print, a thin bright line, floating clear of a dark wall.

Nothing between you and the picture.

  • The surface for work that wants light.
  • Colour at full strength; blacks hold their depth.
  • Sealed under gloss: no frame, no glazing.
  • 3 mm aluminium composite, floats clear of the wall.
Arrives flat, hanging system included
Paper
A Madtag print on a sheet of matte fine art paper, curling at one corner to show its thickness.

Hahnemühle, not poster paper.

  • When you want the best.
  • Unframed, it is Hahnemühle: photographs on Photo Rag 308, 100% cotton.
  • Painterly work on German Etching 310, mould-made and textured.
  • Over 300 gsm, printed as a pigment giclée.
Arrives rolled in a Madtag tube
Framed
The corner of a Madtag print in a black wood frame, the sheet flush against the moulding behind acrylic, no mount board.

For the wall you want finished.

  • Framed and finished; no trip to a framer.
  • A different print: 200 gsm coated silk, made as one piece.
  • Black, white or natural wood moulding.
  • Acrylic glazing, no mount board: the sheet fills the frame.
Arrives flat in its frame
Canvas
A Madtag print on stretched canvas with a solid black wrapped edge.

Nothing lost around the corner.

  • Occupies the room rather than hanging flat.
  • Stretched over a 40 mm deep FSC wood frame.
  • No glazing; the weave itself takes the light.
  • The picture stops at the face; edges solid black, always.
Arrives stretched and ready to hang
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