Looking far afield

  

Looking far afield

through Elysian fields of dust

to the very edge.

before after

A collage of old and new perspectives of Jupiter, Saturn, comets, Pluto, Europa, Mars, the Sun, and deepest space.  When New Horizons reaches Pluto in 2015, we will have the after picture.  Likewise Europa when we launch a mission there.  And Hubble’s Ultra Deepfield image will likely be superseded by even more amazing photos from JWST.

spacecraft and rovers

Spacecraft and rovers from Earth to upper right: Hubble Space Telescope (image credit: NASA), lunar rover Yutu (image credit: China space), Mars rover Curiosity (image credit: NASA/JPL), Cassini (image credit: NASA/JPL), Rosetta (image credit: ESA, image by AOES Medialab), New Horizons (image credit: NASA), Voyager (image credit: NASA), and Pioneer (image credit: NASA).

space that neither I nor words grasp

Cut text from an old Sir Walter Scott piece borrowed for a poem. I pasted this text onto a B&W version of a Hubble photo of the center of the Milky Way. Hubble image credit: NASA, ESA, and Q.D. Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

connect the dots

A field from Edwin Hubble’s “Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae” (1920) overwritten by text from “Paper Sloyd: A Handbook for Primary Grades” (1905).

Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae: Redacted Poem

First page of Edwin Hubble's doctoral dissertation at University of Chicago (1920). I redacted the text into a poem with a black pastel chalk then created a photo negative. I glued examples of Wolf's Classes of Nebulae (Plate III in Hubble's dissertation) into the margins to create a kind of artificial, tacked-on, unreadable marginalia.