Lia Halloran’s artwork is a dialogue between science and nature: merging scientific materials, historical influences, and personal narratives.

Lia’s cyanotype installation at Meta’s Los Angeles office is a testament to the sun’s impressive, sheer power. The work was produced through exposure to the sun — using no dark room, camera, or other traditional photographic materials. The imagery is drawn from depictions of sunspots, magnetic fields, and the personal archives of female astronomers in Southern California who participated in solar expeditions and the study of the sun, done on the 100-foot solar telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles.

Black Sun, Shadow Moon is on permanent display at Meta’s Phase 1 campus in Los Angeles, CA.