In 2003, his swollen, hazy, sodium-coloured sun brooded over the vast volume of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.
A nice enough story, but what really makes this book sing are Horacek's amazing illustrations, all ice and snow with occasional vivid sightings of an orange-coloured sun.
By day the whole character of the room was conditioned by the quality of light, the furnishings made pale and uniform in blanket cloud, or sharpened and coloured in sun.
Châteaux, miles of unbroken green with flashes of red poppies, medieval hill-top towns, the lemon-coloured morning sun easing the mist from the fields, some fantastic swoops down into villages, when we'd freewheel at amazing speeds, shouting into the wind.
Each of its 10 bungalows are named after circus acts – Ring Master, Lion, Seal, Clown – and have kitchens, homely living spaces and little wooden decks with candy-coloured scallop-shaped sun chairs.
Multi-coloured prayer flags flutter on strings, bleached by the sun into pastel shades.Further north of the monastery is a vast lake that drains away at this time of year to leave pasture behind more food for the yaks.
Sun dogs are pearly or rainbow-coloured effects around the sun, caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
Red rainbows can be observed especially at the time of twilight when red-coloured light from the sun gets refracted by waterdrops.
The capital is St George's, a pastel-coloured mishmash of sun-worn buildings that cluster round the picturesque horseshoe harbour.
It is the sun-coloured metal, so rare that mankind recycles every glint, so ductile that one gram of it can be beaten to a translucent metre squared, and so inert that even after five millennia at the bottom of a bronze age burial mound, it still gleams at its unearther.
The interior is beautifully lit by the sun illuminating magnificent coloured Perpsex windows – cheaper than glass at the time; this was not an expensive building – while its roof structure is a mixture of Maori, medieval and modern elements.
