This artist book tells the story of my lifelong love of the stars. I love both the science and the poetry of them. Knowing that the stars are vast infernos powered by nuclear fusion does not decrease their beauty as tiny lights in the night sky, it only increases my fascination. To stargaze, you must understand the motion of the stars and planets as both objects in a three-dimensional universe, and as points on the sphere of the sky. This book invites you to hold both truths in your head as you look up at the stars.
The artist book consists of three parts: the book itself, a star map, and a slipcase to hold both. They were printed in an edition of three using cyanotype, a photographic process that uses sunlight to print blue and white images that are well-suited to depicting the night sky. The book uses a modified eight-page zine format, the perfect size to hold a short poem. The star map was generated for the day and location that this book was completed, making it forever inaccurate to anything but that time and place. Still, we look up at the same sky.
