How a day becomes colour
Nothing on your canvas is random and nothing is decoration. Here is what each part means.
The heights are hours
A day canvas has three fields: daylight, twilight and night. Each is as tall as it lasted on that date at that latitude. A December day in Stockholm is mostly night with a long band of twilight; a June day in Palermo is a wide field of light.
A night canvas holds the moon, the last light and the dark. The moon field is as large and as bright as the moon was lit that evening, and almost disappears at new moon.
The colours are the sky
- The height of the sun at noon: overhead it bleaches the light, low in winter it warms it to rose and gold.
- Whether the days were growing or shrinking. April and October have the same hours of light, not the same light.
- The weather on record: heat towards yellow, cold towards pink, rain towards lilac.
- The latitude: long violet twilights in the north, short burning ones near the equator.
- The moon, which lifts the night and shifts every colour slightly from one day to the next.
Where the data comes from
Sun, twilight and moon are calculated and exact for any date. Weather comes from open scientific archives, satellites and stations. When there is no record, we use the typical weather of that place in that season, and the page says so.
The object
Bare: stretched cotton canvas on a pine frame, hand finished, the colours continuing around the edges.
Framed: recycled canvas, woven from recycled plastic bottles, printed with water-based inks, in a float frame of sustainably sourced wood, black or white. The canvas stands free of the wood with a fine shadow gap.
At the foot, small and centred, the date and the place with its coordinates, in the lettering you choose. Or nothing at all.
The same day, always the same canvas
Enter the same date and place in ten years and the same colours come back. Another day, or the same day somewhere else, gives another canvas.