About the work

A closer look.

Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland. A passage tomb older than the pyramids and older than Stonehenge: built around 3,150 BC. Once a year, at winter solstice sunrise, a narrow beam of light enters through the roof-box above the door and travels about 19 metres down the passage to reach the chamber floor, for roughly 17 minutes. This print imagines that exact moment: the first sun of the shortest day clearing the mound, white quartz facing catching the light, the roof-box doing its once-a-year work. An honest note, the way we sign everything: the alignment is real and documented (Michael O'Kelly, who excavated the mound, stood inside in the dark on 21 December 1967 and watched the beam arrive). Whether the alignment was engineered to the precision the story implies is still debated by archaeoastronomers — so this piece is inspired by the solstice alignment, never measured by it. What you get: - High-resolution JPG, 2048 x 2048 px, painterly style - Prints beautifully up to A3 (11.7 x 16.5 in) and square formats - Digital delivery by email within 48 hours — no physical item ships A print for people who like their walls to carry a story: the oldest known light-calendar in Europe, and the sunrise it was built to catch.