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Mercury Suite: Description

60" x 60" O.A.; Silverpoint on Prepared Wood Panels.
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While the craters and features of the Moon and Mars are named after astronomers, scientists and philosophers, the Astronomical Union’s naming convention for Mercury is artists.

Silverpoint (though difficult to photograph) felt like the perfect medium to represent the austere and stark qualities of these landscapes.

Creating these panels gave me an opportunity to meditate on fame and deep time. While most of the artist’s are considered immortals by their respective cultures, most of these craters will outlive those cultures. Geologically speaking, the craters themselves are temporary, slowly being effaced by new impacts, short lived relative to the life of the planet. The life of the planet, while almost certainly dwarfing the lifetime of our species, will be as the blink of an eye within the incomprehensibly vast lifetime of the universe.

The panels are, from left to right, starting at the top:
1: Sholem Aleichem, Vayasa and Stravinsky
2: Gauguin and Tung Yuan
3: Van Eyck and Shakespeare
4: Matisse and Raphael
5: Imhotep and Ibsen
6: Al-Hamadhani
7: Chopin, Wagner and Bach
8: Praxiteles and Han-Ch’ing
9: Beethoven

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