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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Desmond Lazaro, Herschel I, 2020

Desmond Lazaro b. 1968

Herschel I, 2020
Pigment paint and raised gild on cotton cloth on birch board
39.5 x 27.25 x 1 in | 100.3 x 69.2 x 2.5 cm
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After Herschel’s drawing titled Account of some observations tending to investigate the Construction of the Heavens. The elongated rectangle offers several views of the night sky in one image. Each...
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After Herschel’s drawing titled Account of some observations tending to investigate the Construction of the Heavens. The elongated rectangle offers several views of the night sky in one image. Each slice suggests that, depending on the direction of the observation, there are more stars in one section than in the others, hence each shape bifurcates allowing for more empty parts of the sky. However, this was largely due to the limits of his telescope and cloudy astral skies. Although, for the first time it offers a new picture of the heavens, hinting (accurately, we may add) at the elongated non-circular nature of today’s standard spiral model.
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