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The Artist's Own Celestial Charts to Guide the Reader in Search of the Elusive & Changing CENTER

The Artist's Own Celestial Charts to Guide the Reader in Search of the Elusive & Changing CENTER
The Artist's Own Celestial Charts to Guide the Reader in Search of the Elusive & Changing CENTER

Printed intaglio from photopolymer plates, plus watercolor, on BFK Rives de Lin Moulin du Gue paper. Center page of Canford Gold. Sewn onto tapes with kettle stitch and covered with Cave Indigo paper. 2004. 8.5" x 8.5" x .5" closed.

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Following the creation of MAPPING THE GREAT BOOK (2001), with its centered book of star maps placing us at the very center of the visible Universe, I started wondering about the center of Universe and Self. The ancient peoples were secure in their sacred mountain and world tree centers. The early astronomers, whose books I love to read and whose artful maps and charts I love to see, believed that our planet Earth was the center of the Universe. Eventually, we were forced to relinquish our favored central place to the Sun -- giver of light and life -- until astronomers could see that our Sun was merely one of many, far off-center, in a spiraling galaxy that was the Universe. Now, we know there are galaxies galore and we are told that there is no center. What to do? What is the center? Where could it be? Why do we seek it? What difference does it make? How do we know when we’ve found it?

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The Artist's Own Celestial Charts to Guide the Reader in Search of the Elusive & Changing CENTER
MAPPING THE GREAT BOOK
Between Us & Far Away (book closed)
Between Us & Far Away (book opened)
Ladder Adventure - Chapter 3
Pine/Cone/Needles/Sun 9:00am 6/22/00
MOON
MOON
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