Diazo/Silkscreen Prints from 2007 Traveling Scholars Show in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
acrylic and cyanotype on paper
24" x 36"
2007
This
suite of prints are diazotypes of plates from Thomas Wright's 1750 publication An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe.
In this
book, Wright posited that we exist amongst a immense cluster of stars.
He is also famous for his work as a garden architect. These
prints have
screenprints of common british snails cohabiting Wright's illustrations
of his cosmological theories.