A lunar material collection / 036
The Lunar Cabinet
Silver, shadow & the shape of a month.
Eight phases, six colors and a collection of rooms after moonrise. Follow the light from an engraved lunar plate into paper, metal and the spaces we inhabit.
01 / The cycle
One Moon. Eight ways of seeing.
Choose a phase to study its light.
Selected phase / 02
Waxing Crescent
A silver edge against generous shadow.
A slim portion of the sunlit half comes into view. A small bright edge can lead the eye without filling the page.
Simplified Northern Hemisphere view. Actual orientation varies with location and time. This is an illustration, not today’s phase.
Understand lunar phases on Lunologium02 / The palette
Six colors, one atmosphere.
Screen colors are authored interpretations. Material photographs show surface character; they are not calibrated color samples.
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The proportions change the live interface’s color strip and are saved with the selected phase in your study link and exports.
03 / Translate
From a room to an interface.
The interface
Objects, rooms & materials
Notes from the night sky.
An illustrated journal of silver light, quiet rooms and a changing Moon.
The same palette. Different roles.
Materials
The ingredients.
An imagined setting.
A contemporary interpretation,
with references kept beside the study.
04 / The collection
Different rooms. The same Moon.
Follow a material, a season, or a way of looking.
Germany / Study 037
Hunter’s Moon
Loden, russet & the last oak leaves.
Open the study
United States / Study 034
Adirondack Beaver Moon
Birch, river stone & beeswax.
Open the study
France / Study 038
Paris Observatory
Moon prints, blue slate & a brass eyepiece.
Open the study
Japan / Study 040
The Moon Viewing Room
Washi, hinoki & a view left open.
Open the study
Take away
Take the study with you.
Sources & interpretation
The lunar plate and rooms are original visual interpretations. The phase diagram follows the basic geometry of sunlight on a sphere, in eight representative north-up Northern Hemisphere views. The engraving is decorative, not a labeled surface map, and the selected phase is not a live observation. Seasonal names, lunar phases and material associations are separate ways of approaching the Moon.
The palette follows the authored material references in this collection. Room, object and material imagery were created for this study. These are imagined settings, with no affiliation to the fictional interface brands.
The controls explore screen composition, not physical pigment recipes or material measurements. Image rights · Image permissions