brief frame

Typed words pasted onto backing on a canvas frame. Saturn image is from “Saturn and Its Ring, 1875-1889” by Asaph Hall (published 1889).

marginalia

Poem typed onto “destroyed” (whited out, painted on, chalked) text.

new horizons

Haiku I wrote on canvas back for my 6,000th tweet. It was dedicated to NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto-Kuiper Belt. The image is a picture of Pluto taken by New Horizons. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)

Our own traversed from this planet up

Old text “Towards New Horizons” (Mary Patricia Willcocks, 1919) redacted into a new piece. Astronaut pic is of Ed White (image credit: NASA).

one day it happens

Haiku typed onto tissue paper. Background image is an old Moon map.

MANNED

Words from the out-of-copyright “A Pictorial History of England” redacted. The background graphic is from William Henry Pickering’s 1903 “A Photographic Atlas of the Moon.”

Things a Bright Girl Can Do

Text from the 1903 “Three Hundred Things a Bright Girl Can Do” redacted into something new. The image negating the underlying crochet image is Mars rover Spirit tracks (image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

first woman on the moon

Typed poem glued onto a picture of the Moon from Pickering’s 1904 “The moon: a summary of the existing knowledge of our satellite, with a complete photographic atlas.”

a fly speck on an orange

Cut-text poem created on ilustration from an out-of-copyright article called “The Earth’s Interior.” The cut text is from the 1874 work, “The Stars and the Earth, Or, Thoughts Upon Space, Time, and Eternity.”