SpaceX

Overcast, Vandenberg

A launch under heavy overcast at Vandenberg, carrying a satellite whose job is to keep measuring the height of the sea.

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

The satellite inside this rocket went up to keep a measurement going. Since 1992 a series of American and European satellites had been tracking the height of the ocean, and by the time Jason-3 left Vandenberg on 17 January 2016 they had recorded 70 millimetres of global sea level rise, an average of about 3 millimetres a year.

From an orbit 1,336 kilometres up, Jason-3 reads the surface of 95 percent of the ice-free ocean every ten days, to an accuracy of about 3.3 centimetres. In the photograph there is no hard shadow anywhere. The overcast diffuses everything, a boiling white smoke bank fills the lower half, and the palette runs grey to warm cream with almost no blue.

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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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