In April 2024, Tacita Dean traveled to Eagle Pass, Texas to photograph a total solar eclipse—aiming her camera at the sun without looking through the viewfinder, twisting and snapping with little calculation. What emerged were not photographs but drawings made with sunlight itself: loops and arcs of luminous energy seared onto black. Now translated into twelve screenprints by Gemini G.E.L., the Eclipse Drawings (2026) suspend glowing lines between celestial documentation and pure abstraction.
