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A terracotta sun with twenty-four curved flame rays, alternately long and short, sits on a sand ground, ringed by small rust dots, with a sand line of dots inside and an ochre centre. A rust dune runs along the bottom.
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Terracotta Sun

No. 17 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA terracotta sun with twenty-four curved flame rays, alternately long and short, sits on a sand ground, ringed by small rust dots, with a sand line of dots inside and an ochre centre. A rust dune runs along the bottom.

What it meansA folk sun made precise, with the rays all turning the same way so it seems to spin.

Where it worksFor a bedroom, a kitchen or a sunny hallway.

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Forty tapered black rays in a long, short, middle, short rhythm open out from a plain gold core, on a bone ground. Two smaller bursts sit lower right and lower left.Burst of StarsNo. 1
Nine pale gold moons follow one faint arc across a midnight sky, waxing from a thin crescent on the left to full at the top and waning to a crescent on the right. Low black land runs along the bottom and small stars fill the sky.Moon CrossingNo. 2
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A black moon covers the sun on a black ground. A bright inner ring hugs its edge, soft streamers in bone and stone reach out longest along one diagonal, and fine, evenly spaced rays fan out between them. A single bead of light flares on the rim, lower left.CoronaNo. 4
A terracotta sun sits low in the left corner of a sand ground, and seven fine black orbits sweep out from it across the frame. Planets of different sizes ride the orbits, one ringed, one with a small moon on a dotted path.OrreryNo. 5

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