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Afternoon sun through an unseen pointed window lays a bright arch of light across a periwinkle wall and on over the floor, broken by glazing bars and the shadows of fig leaves and a trailing sprig.
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Arch of Light

No. 13 of 50 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeAfternoon sun through an unseen pointed window lays a bright arch of light across a periwinkle wall and on over the floor, broken by glazing bars and the shadows of fig leaves and a trailing sprig.

What it meansThe pointed arch is one of the oldest forms in Islamic architecture. Here it appears only as light, the way a room remembers its windows at the end of the day.

Where it worksA quiet, spacious print for a bedroom, a study or a calm hallway.

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Two glasses of amber tea on their saucers stand on a pale table in a patch of sun shaped like a round-arched window. The shadow of a palm frond falls across the light on the sage-green wall.Tea in the SunNo. 14
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A round window fitted with an iron grille of eight-point stars throws its pattern on a deep green wall, as a soft disc of light pierced with small bright stars.Star LightNo. 16
A tall rectangle of sun falls on a soft periwinkle wall, and across it the clean shadow of a single date-palm frond. Nothing else is in the room.Palm ShadowNo. 17
Two pointed windows cast twin arches of sun on a periwinkle wall, divided by glazing bars and crossed by leaf shadow. A potted palm stands between them on a cool tiled floor.Two ArchesNo. 18
A brass ewer stands on a pale table in a horseshoe-shaped patch of morning sun, with jasmine shadows on the sage wall behind it.Morning EwerNo. 19
A cream bowl heaped with lemons sits in a round-arched patch of sun on a periwinkle wall and table, crossed by the shadow of a lemon branch.Lemons in the LightNo. 20
A brass watering can and a pot of seedlings stand on a tiled floor in a long slant of sun from a pointed window. Fig leaves throw their shadows across the light on the deep green wall.Watering CanNo. 21

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