Besides being available for sale in the studio, these photo art books are available online from BLURB. And they are having a FREE SHIPPING sale until Dec. 31 (free ground shipping in the USA). Use code FREESHIP2015 and order by Dec. 11 for delivery by December 24.
These books include reproductions of the prints in the series Celestial Bodies, Mimesis, and Jewels. (Click on the titles to see images of the original prints on this website.) Prices range from $28.50 to $75.
With the creation of Celestial Bodies V–Z, I have now completed all 26 in this series, one for each letter of the alphabet. You can see that the image for the letter “X” is a comet, named x/1702 because it was observed in the year 1702. There were only two letters of the alphabet which were difficult to find objects for: “X” and “Q.” For “Q” I used a Chinese name for a particular star. Otherwise, the sky (and the human habit of naming things) has been very cooperative with my alphabetic imagination. Most of the names are from the Arabic, and I love how they sound.
With the creation of Celestial Bodies W–Z, this series is now complete, with all 26 letters of the alphabet represented, from Aldebaran to Zosma. Moreover, I have also created a photo book which includes all 26 images plus some text inspired by Galileo’s groundbreaking observations of the moon. He was the first one to publish observations of the moon using that newfangled technology, the telescope. He created an augmented version of the device and trained it on the heavens, applying his knowledge of phenomena close at hand to the things he saw above. He also looked at Jupiter and saw its moons for the first time, and figured out that they were moons. He was remarkably perceptive. He is one of my heroes. Here is the title page of his book, The Starry Messenger (1610), next to the title page of my book (2015). Now this book and the fine art prints it reproduces are available for sale online.
An open-edition photo book of all 26 images plus text available online at http://www.blurb.com/b/6381958-celestial-bodies
Prints are for sale online at https://www.etsy.com/shop/LedaBlackFineArt
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