Astronomia: Solar Circus

You are here.

Circling Sol, our sun, a modest star in middle age.

At the center of a circus where planets juggle moons,

dwarf planets play at being invisible

and asteroids fizz with the magic of water.

Here are things you can see. And things that reveal themselves

in wavelengths we cannot see. 

Our once-and-future sun. 

The eight planets.

Some of the million million planetoids.

Our disappearing moon.

Using aluminum prints, neon, LED lights and a lot of help

from both NASA and the European Space Agency,

artist Spurlock and writer John Martin Tarrat illuminate a neighborhood

alive with quirks and wonders.


Sol:  Once and Future

Direct Impression Print on Plexiglass

30 inches round



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Venus

Direct Impression Print on Aluminum

20 x 20 inches


The lady boils lead, sweats acid 

and wonders whether to change her sheets.

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Neptune  

Direct Impression Print on Aluminum

20 x 20 inches


Bring a brolly.

It rains all the time.

Solitaires, marquises, kohinoors.

A forever of diamonds.

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Earth

Direct Impression Print on Aluminum

18 x 24 inches


Why didn't they ask the trees?

Wish you'd been here.



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Mars

Direct Impression Print on Aluminum

20 x 20 inches


Last rock from the sun.

Where the war god stables the beasts of his need.

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