This painting is based on a photograph of a rainbow that Olafur took from the roof of his studio in Berlin in 2024. A circular band of colours progresses from red through orange and yellow to green, blue, and indigo – the tones that make up the prismatic spectrum. Geometrically speaking, a rainbow is actually a circle that only appears to be an arch because it is intersected by the horizon line. If the earth did not block our view of it, the rainbow would appear as a full ring – much as in this painting. The contrast between the colourful ring and the hazy grey background reproduces the palette of the photograph as precisely as possible and causes the circular rainbow to almost seems to be made of light.