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The Listening Dish at Dusk: tactile papercraft art phone wallpaper in beige, orange and red, for iPhone and Android lock screens

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The Listening Dish at Dusk

A tactile papercraft art wallpaper for iPhone and Android lock screens, from Morrow's daily wallpaper drop.

Free JPEG sized for phone screens. The Morrow app has the 4K original.

Collection
Paper Frontiers
Released

Colors

Beige, orange and red. Tap a color to copy it.

About this wallpaper

The first of November arrives softly, as the year tips toward its quieter months. Today's piece honors the patience of listening: a single paper radio dish, folded and scored by hand, turned toward a sky the color of warm apricot tea.

Beside it stands a figure no taller than a fingernail, lantern raised. Nothing dramatic happens here. There is no launch and no arrival, only the hum of waiting, drawn as fine paper arcs rippling into the dusk. Each layer of the sky is a separate sheet of tissue, lit from behind so the light seems to breathe between them, and every shadow is real and cast in miniature.

Cinema has long taught us that solitude in space is not emptiness but attentiveness. Rendered in paper, that idea becomes intimate and forgiving: you can almost see the cutting mat beneath it. On a day for remembering and gentle beginnings, let your screen hold a small frontier where someone is simply, faithfully listening.

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A new art wallpaper on your lock screen, every morning

Morrow is a free wallpaper app for iPhone and Android. Each day brings a new piece of art made for phone screens, with the story behind it, and many pieces come in more than one version in the app.