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Astronomical

2011


A scale model of our solar system in book form.


Astronomical translates the entire solar system into a twelve-volume printed set, each book representing a planetary scale of distance. Turning pages becomes a journey through billions of kilometres — from the Sun to Pluto — rendered through a process that collapses scientific data into physical space.


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Artist’s book and single-channel video (09:47 mins)

Twelve softcover volumes printed-on-demand, 5.5″ x 8.5″ (13.97 x 21.59cm), 6,000 pages
Our solar system in twelve volumes. The width of each page is one million kilometres.  On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto.







Twelve volumes Frontispiece Scale The Sun, pages 1-2, volume 1 Earth, page 155, volume 1 Jupiter, page 283, volume 2 Saturn. page 433, volume 3






ASTRONOMICAL (THE MOVIE)








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PRESS


Mishka Henner Uses Google Earth as Muse, Philip Gefter, New York Times
At Vassar, Seeing the Heavens With Paint, Pencil and Cocaine, Susan Hodara, New York Times
The Solar System on Paper, Kat Austen, New Scientist
Photography but not as we know it, George Pendle, The Economist
Ocean of Images Review, Richard B Woodward, Wall Street Journal