Triptychs for 72 Solar Eclipses

August 12th 2026, a total solar eclipse crossed continental Europe, the first visible here since August 11th 1999. The word eclipse comes from the Greek ekleipsis, “a leaving out.” Against that omission stands phaínesthai: to come into appearance. Sun is a triptych consisting of a system poem, which regularises the noun column of a 2011 precursor system poem, in addition to three short video sequences: Aperture, Augury, and Apparition. The core of the work is a 10-ten word grid, which can generate 72 unique variants; one variant for each of the 72 cycles in Saros 126.