Western Sun is a wall installation made by Mark Handforth in 2004. The materials are fluorescent lights and fixtures on a large white wall, stretching for over twenty feet wide and twelve feet high in most installations. Western Sun is part of a group of works consisting of fluorescent light fixtures installed directly into the gallery wall in a pictorial arrangement. This artwork is arranged in a way that mirrors a partially setting sun, disappearing into the gallery floor. The work immerses everything around it, including the viewer’s body, in a dramatic, red-orange glow. Even before you enter the gallery you see an orange glow that tints everything around it. In the middle of the installation is a partial circle, the floor seems to intersect the lower part of the circle, creating the illusion that part of it is under the gallery floor. The top of the circle is at the height of an average adult male, about six feet high. This partial circular shape is outlined by the tips of the orange, elongated fluorescent light bulbs, 26 of them, that emanate outwards in different sizes. The artist uses everyday objects such as streetlights, beams, and highway signs, combining an interest in the contemporary urban landscape with an affinity for surrealistic effects. He emphasizes simple forms that interact with ambient space, and a playful Pop art sensibility. The fluorescent lights are lined up all the way up to the ceiling and outwards to both ends of the wall. The work immerses everything around it, including the viewer’s body, in a dramatic, red-orange glow. Evoking the notion of human-made sunlight, it relates to a world in which all things natural have been replaced by manufactured products.