Virtual Sun No. 0024

Fresnel lenses and a sheet of streaked glass are held by mahogany clamps on chrome rods. A high-spectrum LED, reproducing the visible spectrum of sunlight, is focused through the lenses into a luminous sphere.

There is no housing. Other Virtual Suns enclose their light in boxes of wood or metal; here the walls are reduced to a few panes held apart in the air. An interior still forms: between the lenses, a sphere of light seems to stand in a room that has no walls.

Light passes through glass clouded like a sky before it reaches the lens. The sphere appears behind weather of its own making.

The box has dissolved. The inside remains.