From the artist statement: “On a clear day, look to the sky, face the sun and close your eyes. Your eyelid slides over the pupil, environment disappears, but does sight? Unfocused light pours in through a fleshy membrane, creating a gradient blood orange color. Viewing without seeing, looking at the sun through ourselves: an afterimage. I recorded a recreation of this effect, not with an eyelid, but with white latex paint poured onto glass, lit to glow like light through thin flesh. Once the paint settled into a circle, I saw I hadn’t just recreated the color, I’d poured out a small model of the sun. There’s circularity to engaging the cosmos photographically. The camera owes part of its existence to lens technology established centuries before, used to better view space. I made the picture with a view camera using large sheet film that records a tremendous amount of information. It’s an inconvenient, slow process that allows me to meet the pace of the desired encounter.”