Yuri Tanaka

2020.10 – 11

Kwasan Observatory of Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan


Members: Yuri Tanaka, Ryu Sakurai, Hajime Shimoyama, and Ryo Takahashi

In respect of the observatory’s long-term research about the Sun since 1929, this installation explores an artistic way of appreciating the hidden beauty of the Sun. These butterfly-shaped spectral filters, of which the design is based on a sunspot graph called butterfly diagram, make sunlight visible like a rainbow.

Photo: Daisuke Aochi