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Parhelion

Nothing in the sky is drawn. Each work is a simulation of sunlight falling through a cloud of ice crystals — every halo is what remains after a trillion of them have tumbled. Fifty in the edition; five shown here.

PARHELION plate 27 — a high sun encircled by nested halos at unusual radii, produced by pyramidal ice crystals, against a deep blue-grey sky. PARHELION plate 13 — a tiny brilliant sun in a near-black sky, surrounded by one sharp white ring and several fainter concentric rings fading into the dark. A thin horizontal line of light crosses the sky through the sun. The bottom of the frame holds a narrow band of dim warm light at the horizon. PARHELION plate 34 — a bright sun ringed by several tight concentric halos, with a broad arc sweeping across a deep blue sky. PARHELION plate 8 — tangent arcs converging to a bright point above a band of warm gold light near the horizon. PARHELION plate 11 — a sun pillar and repeating rainbow-fringed arcs rising from a golden dune horizon at low sun.