alexander beeching
I found Alexander Beeching’s prints on 20×200 and couldn’t resist the bison. Of the series, Alexander says:
“I have long been interested in the idea of finding one’s way, both literally and metaphorically. The stars can give you your bearings, like Polaris, or tell you your longitude and latitude. The Mesopotamians saw many things in the heavens: Orion’s belt, and the twelve signs of the zodiac to name but a few. Later, others saw different patterns there so that, for instance, the Assyrian Hired Man and the Swallow became the constellations of Aries and Pisces.
What struck me about these star maps is that with the slight effort of imagination one can see what one wants there…
I decided to come up with my own set of imaginary constellations. First drawn in pencil, they were scanned into a computer and then turned into a negative.”
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Noodles and Waffles
November 17, 2010 at 6:40 pmThese are so beautiful. Great find!