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Pillars of Creation

Three columns of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, 6,500 light-years off, seen in the infrared that makes them look half transparent.

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

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About this work

Hubble photographed these columns in 1995 and fixed them in everyone's mind as solid rock. Webb came back in October 2022 with a near-infrared camera and the same pillars turned semi-transparent, closer to smoke than stone. The crimson at two of the tips is hydrogen, lit by jets from stars still forming inside.

It looks as though the infrared has seen past the pillars into deep space. It has not. There are no galaxies in this view: a translucent haze of gas and dust, the interstellar medium, stands in the way, lit from within by the crowd of stars packed into this region.

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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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