The Milky Way (2016) These works remake the first photographic atlas of the milky way by the astronomer E. E. Bernard (1927) using photographically illustrated history textbooks

Untitled (Milky Way #1), collage, framed dimensions 57 ½  x 58 ¼ inches

Untitled (Milky Way #1), detail

Milky Way, Installation View

Untitled (Milky Way #1), detail

Untitled (Milky Way #2), collage, framed dimensions 39 1/4 x 59 1/8 inches, 2016

Untitled (Milky Way #1), detail

Untitled (Milky Way #3), collage, framed dimensions 36 ½ x 60 ½ inches, 2016

Untitled (Milky Way #1), detail

Untitled (Milky Way #1), detail

Untitled (Milky Way), collage, framed dimensions 30 x 24 inches

Milky Way, Installation View

My interest is in the perceptual experience of looking, and in this case looking at the Milky Way. There are two divergent reactions when looking at the night sky—one of seeing ourselves up there in the stories and myths of constellations, and the other of seeing scientific fact, the milky way as a physical “outer” space.


These observational “drawings” resemble photographic star maps from a distance, but a close-up the fragments of printed photographic images of archeological sites, historical photographs, and famous geographic sites become visible.