Moons
This series, printed during a residency at the Lower East Side Printshop, includes three editions and multiple unique prints. The moon, whose cycles have often been used to mark months, waxes and wanes yet remains neutral to our plight. Sometimes the orbiting satellite seems to be a disinterested observer, sometimes a comforting companion. As the curator Nicole Kaack has written, these prints provide “a surprising moment of stillness” and the “meticulous etching of the cragged lunar surface suggests a clear icon for our participation in recurrent cosmic cycles.”
Using both etching and cyanotype, the prints themselves speak to the representation of this ever-present satellite in the history of photography. (See, for example, Apollo’s Muse at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Apparent in many of the prints are images that also call attention to the passage of time -- both human and mythic: falcons, numbers, airplanes, skyscapes, maps of weather patterns, and x-rays of teeth.
While the prints vary in size, each is approximately 22” x 22”/24”.