SOL

Roughly 12x12 cm linocut (on ~21x21 cm Kent paper).

Part of the SOL & LUNA series.

Geometrical representation of the sun and the moon.
Both have the same right-angled triangle as a starting point.
The sun is formed by creating the circumcircle (the centre of the circle is where the perpendicular bisectors meet).
The moon is a so-called Lune of Hippocrates, the area of the moon being the same as that of the triangle.
Both are straightedge and compass constructions.