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Across cultures and throughout time, we have devised different ways to experience, represent, describe, and even predict the phenomena of eclipses in general, and total solar eclipses in particular. It told us when to go to war and when to wait for a new crop. It gave us good and bad luck, dictated the will of the gods, the mystic and the unexplainable, putting humans in an inferior realm. Sometimes an omen of something that would happen in the future, as well as a tool to mark cycles and epochs. But it also provided a way to understand the clockwork of our solar system and of the cosmos through scientific experiments. A mystic sign for religions, an inspiration for the arts and a tool for scientists. Total solar eclipses have been here long before humans walked the mountains and the valleys of our planet, and will probably outlast us in 600 million years, when the moon has drifted away enough for this spectacle to end. 
To experience a total solar eclipse is to witness the universe, momentarily, looking back at itself.

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To mark the upcoming total solar eclipse on the 12th of August 2026, I’ve made a limited edition of 30 handmade, bleached T-shirts featuring the technical information of the eclipse: latitude, longitude, duration, altitude above the horizon at the greatest point of the eclipse, among others.
In a way, it’s a celebration of our ability to predict these amazing events.

I'll also be publishing a small book with stories and fun facts about eclipses this September so keep your ears open for news.

If you're interested in acquiring one of these T-shirts please DM me.
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Big thanks to everyone involved who had so much patience with my obsessions.

Models:
@carolinabagulho @pedrohuet

Silkscreen:
@_echopress_

Fonts:
ATL Slip Serif Mono
ATL Slip Sans Mono
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