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Test Stand at Night

A Raptor engine firing sideways off a test stand at night, the first time one was ever run.

Test Stand at Night
Test Stand at Night
Test Stand at Night shown in a limewash reading corner beside an armchair and a floor lamp - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
Test Stand at Night shown in a graphite plaster wall at night, lit by a console lamp - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
Test Stand at Night 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 was the first test firing of a Raptor engine, run sideways off a stand at night on 25 September 2016. An engine is bolted down and run before it is trusted to fly, and the ground run is made deliberately harder than the flight: longer than a mission needs, and past the power a launch calls for, so the margin is proven here rather than discovered in the air.

Three bright shock diamonds sit in a row at the left, stepping down in size away from the nozzle, before the plume opens out and runs blue to violet to orange across the right two thirds of the frame. Almost nothing here clips to white, so the diamonds keep their separation instead of collapsing into one core.

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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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