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24.00" x 7.00"
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24.00" x 7.00"
Sunsight Canvas Print
by Joel Loftus
Product Details
Sunsight canvas print by Joel Loftus. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap). Your canvas print will be delivered to you "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
Although the Sun appears to rise from the horizon, it is actually the Earth's motion that causes the Sun to appear. The illusion of a moving Sun... more
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Although the Sun appears to "rise" from the horizon, it is actually the Earth's motion that causes the Sun to appear. The illusion of a moving Sun results from Earth observers being in a rotating reference frame; this apparent motion is so convincing that most cultures had mythologies and religions built around the geocentric model, which prevailed until astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus first formulated the heliocentric model in the 16th century.
Architect Buckminster Fuller proposed the terms "sunsight" and "sunclipse" to better represent the heliocentric model, though the terms have not entered into common language.
Beginning and end
Astronomically, sunrise occurs for only an instant: the moment at which the upper limb of the Sun appears tangent to the horizon. However, the term sunrise commonly refers to periods of time both before and after this point:
Twilight, the period during which the sky is light but the Sun is not yet visible (morning), or has jus...
About Joel Loftus
"Through the right lens we have the power to see the whole world, not as we perceive but as it truly is." My Images: beautiful, flawed, different They are of sound ideas and techniques which come into the eye or sight with power and impact. Joel Loftus We are in a critical phase of human civilization in which our survival is really in question, generally there is a feeling that something is happening. People have been exposed to the concept of peak oil, climate change, population control and the Doomsday Clock keeps moving closer. Religious people are talking about the end times and the present-day disorganisation. People are beginning to realize these are real crisis but how many of these crises are result of limitations in a...
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