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A generative art project that transforms real sun position data into unrepeatable paintings — one sunrise at a time.
SOL started with a simple question: what if every sunrise had its own painting? Not a photograph, not a rendering — a generative artwork shaped entirely by the real position of the sun at a specific place and moment in time.
The project launched as a collection of 365 unique pieces, one for each day of the year, each tied to a different city around the world. Every piece was generated from precise astronomical data — the sun's altitude and azimuth at the exact time of sunrise for that location and date.
SOL has since grown into an open platform. Anyone can enter a city and date and watch a one-of-a-kind painting emerge — an artwork that could never exist for any other moment.
In 1972, Andy Warhol created his Sunset series — 632 screen prints of the same composition with only the colors changed. The work proved that a single subject, viewed through shifting variables, could produce extraordinary range.
SOL picks up that thread and pushes it further. Instead of an artist choosing colors, the sun itself drives every visual decision — palette, geometry, light, and composition. The constraint is real-world data. The output is art.
Most generative art relies on random seeds. SOL replaces randomness with astronomy. The sun's altitude sets the palette and light structure. The solar azimuth shapes the composition's geometry and flow. Latitude, longitude, elevation, and time of year combine so that no two pieces can ever be the same.
That means every SOL piece carries personal meaning. A birthday in Tokyo. A wedding morning in Florence. The day your daughter was born. The data behind each sunrise is inseparable from the memory it represents.
SOL is the work of Cory Haber, a generative artist and software engineer who builds at the intersection of code and visual art. His practice explores how algorithms, natural data, and human memory can combine to create something that feels both precise and alive.
A lifelong sunrise watcher and nature lover, Cory built SOL to give people a way to hold on to moments that would otherwise disappear — translated into art by the very forces that created them.