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A lone flat-topped sandstone butte, its talus sweeping up into a sheer cliff, stands on an ochre plain against a peach sky, with a pale sun setting on the horizon just beside it. Its shadow runs towards you in a long dark red wedge to the foot of the frame.
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Desert & Horizon

Long Shadow

No. 20 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA lone flat-topped sandstone butte, its talus sweeping up into a sheer cliff, stands on an ochre plain against a peach sky, with a pale sun setting on the horizon just beside it. Its shadow runs towards you in a long dark red wedge to the foot of the frame.

What it meansAt sunrise and sunset the light comes in level, and a single butte on open ground throws a shadow many times its own height. Every edge of the shadow points back to the sun.

Where it worksMade for a hallway, a landing or a study. It is one of the quietest pieces in the set.

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2:3 · 7200 × 10800 px4×6 · 8×12 · 12×18 · 16×24 · 20×30 · 24×36 in
3:4 · 5400 × 7200 px6×8 · 9×12 · 12×16 · 18×24 in
4:5 · 7200 × 9000 px4×5 · 8×10 · 16×20 · 24×30 in
11:14 · 3300 × 4200 px11×14 in
A-series · 7023 × 9933 pxA5 · A4 · A3 · A2 · A1

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Four rolling bands of dune, pale to dark, fill the lower half beneath a peach sky. A small clay sun sits just above the first ridge.DunesNo. 1
A large sun sits half below a flat horizon, its lower edge cut by a dark red plain. The sky fades from warm rose at the top to pale cream at the line.Low SunNo. 2
The frame is cut down the middle. On the left a clay sky meets a sand plain low down, with half a bone sun sitting on it; on the right a peach sky meets an ochre plain higher up, and the other half of the sun is dark red.Split HorizonNo. 3
Twelve horizontal bands of colour run from deep blue at the top through plum and red to pale gold at the horizon. On the dark plain below, four short bars of the same colours narrow towards the viewer.Dusk BandsNo. 4
A broad flat-topped mesa and a smaller butte stand on an ochre plain against a pale sky, each with a dark shadowed face. A small clay sun sits high on the right.MesaNo. 5
A line of three dromedaries walks along the crest of a deep red dune, their dark silhouettes crossing a large pale sun that sits just on the ridge. A softer dune lies behind them, fine wind ripples run down the shadowed slope in front, and a thin crescent moon hangs high on the left.CaravanNo. 6
A pale full moon hangs in a sky that deepens from violet at the horizon to blue-black at the top. Two dune ridges in plum and near-black fill the foot of the frame.Moon over SandNo. 7
Around a hundred and seventy small dots of bone and ochre scatter across a deep blue night. A red dune, lit on one face and shadowed on the other, closes the foot of the frame.Night DesertNo. 8

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