I invite you to look at these new works: the Fringe Series. There are four multi-medium variation prints in this limited edition (no more than 5)—one for each season in the year. Each thread in the fringe continues the color from the photographic image. The image is printed on canvas and then perforated to allow for the thread to be attached. It looks like the color is spilling out of the image. Each image has portions which are blurred because of motion or the function of the camera lens, so there are paint-like streaks and pointillist spots, all as a product of the camera. I pull indistinct elements from the images and make them concrete by attaching wires or crystals to the threads. These definite elements rhyme with the indefinite parts in the image.
With the creation of Celestial Bodies V–Z, I have now completed all 26 in this series, one for each letter of the alphabet. You can see that the image for the letter “X” is a comet, named x/1702 because it was observed in the year 1702. There were only two letters of the alphabet which were difficult to find objects for: “X” and “Q.” For “Q” I used a Chinese name for a particular star. Otherwise, the sky (and the human habit of naming things) has been very cooperative with my alphabetic imagination. Most of the names are from the Arabic, and I love how they sound.
With the creation of Celestial Bodies W–Z, this series is now complete, with all 26 letters of the alphabet represented, from Aldebaran to Zosma. Moreover, I have also created a photo book which includes all 26 images plus some text inspired by Galileo’s groundbreaking observations of the moon. He was the first one to publish observations of the moon using that newfangled technology, the telescope. He created an augmented version of the device and trained it on the heavens, applying his knowledge of phenomena close at hand to the things he saw above. He also looked at Jupiter and saw its moons for the first time, and figured out that they were moons. He was remarkably perceptive. He is one of my heroes. Here is the title page of his book, The Starry Messenger (1610), next to the title page of my book (2015). Now this book and the fine art prints it reproduces are available for sale online.
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