Title: ‘Iridescence’

Series/Location: Kauai, I Love You, Kauai, Hawai’i

Size: 22×12 in (55.8×30.4cm)

Date Created: February 23rd, 2018

Medium: Pigment on Museum Archival Parchment

Editions: Signed 1 of 25 Edition Unframed

Description: In Iridescence, Gillilan captures an exceedingly rare meteorological phenomenon—sunlight refracted through high-altitude mist at the summit of Kōkeʻe, Kaua‘i—revealing a spectral veil of color seldom visible to the human eye. The image stands at the intersection of atmospheric science and poetics, rendering the forest not merely as subject, but as a threshold space between the seen and the invisible. Radiant and otherworldly, this photograph speaks to the artist’s ongoing inquiry into natural ephemerality and the aesthetics of revelation.

Printed with archival pigment on museum-grade parchment, Iridescence embodies a meditative clarity—offering both a record of place and a moment of optical transcendence.