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The expansive “Suns & Illusions” series was created at a critical period of acclaimed artist Nachume Miller’s life. Made whilst battling brain cancer in his late forties, this series of large scale paintings takes a very different tone from his earlier works—emerging from darker, more dystopian themes to a more transcendental, naturalistic perspective, an homage to the natural world. The sun becomes a focal point of this series, with the sun’s rays “dispens[ing] over the earth: through clouds, under the water—beams as they play over the surface of landscapes,” as curator Mara Williams …