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
Venus
Direct Impression Print on Aluminum
20 x 20 inches
The lady boils lead, sweats acid
and wonders whether to change her sheets.
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.
Earth
Direct Impression Print on Aluminum
18 x 24 inches
Why didn't they ask the trees?
Wish you'd been here.
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.