SpaceX

Against the Sun

A rocket climbing past a hard-edged sun at Cape Canaveral, on a flight whose first stage was deliberately flown into the sea.

Against the Sun
Against the Sun
Against the Sun shown in a limewash reading corner beside an armchair and a floor lamp - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
Against the Sun shown in a graphite plaster wall at night, lit by a console lamp - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
Against the Sun 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

SpaceX used this launch to run an experiment on its own rocket. Following stage separation, the first stage was flown into a very high retrothrust water landing to test the manoeuvre, and it survived. The launch left Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral on 31 January 2018 carrying GovSat-1, a satellite built for a partnership between the Government of Luxembourg and SES.

The sun burns as a hard disc just to the left of the rocket and below its nose cone, and the vertical column running up to the top edge is lens flare rather than exhaust. The smoke cloud is the largest mass in the picture, spreading left across the lower half and lit blue-white on its shadow side. Shot straight into the sun, and not one pixel of the frame is blown to white.

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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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