Starship Asterisk*

Tales of Active Region 1471 of 2012 (Painting) Tales of Active Region 1471 of 2012.JPG I traced the story of sunspot cluster AR 1471/2012 (thanks to SDO/HMI imagery) with daily 2D drawings cumulated into a columnar 'chronotactic' (time-arrangement) narrative structure, painted with knife. Umbrae ar...

It's a fine and poignant image, and I'm all for describing phenomena, processes and quantities in different ways, because these can then give access to fresh ways of looking at other, er, spheres! Otherwise, why pay any attention to a bored Swiss patent clerk chasing torch beams?

Days Before series - 19 July 1969 - Mare Tranquillitatis (Painting) Days Before series - 19 July 1969 - Mare Tranquillitatis.jpg Days Before series - 29 June 1908 - Podkamennaya Tunguska (Painting) Days Before series - 29 June 1908 - Podkamennaya Tunguska.jpg Days Before series - 21 August 2006 - H...

Since when does the UK media particularly care about anything scientific, especially astronomy? Actually, they don't do too badly. I keep cuttings as visual research (a.k.a. Scrapbooks). They're mostly from The Times (London), and I've just been leafing through from 2014 onwards. They've covered th...

Still life with edible planets (Painting)

This is weird: there's been surprisingly thin coverage of Juno's Jupiter images. BBC radio news was the best, including the banshee audio file of the radiation zones (the pictures were quite good too, as so often on radio). I sat in front of the TV, zapping around to catch evening news items on the ...

Solar portrait 27 Sep 2011 1618 UTC (Painting) None too easy to pay respect to our Sun, with painting knife and oils. This was based on a sketch done on to paper while projecting with binoculars.

Events as still-life paintings I enjoy translating events into artistic structures. Solar eclipses look like bites taken out of the Sun. I imagined sequences of drawings - slices of Time - stacked into chronotactic (Time-arrangement) columns. Time here flows downwards. Still life with bottled partia...

Still life with souvenirs in Earthlight Here I took the still-life genre into a free-fall context, imagining little souvenirs and luxuries cherished in orbit: a model boat, Bulla seashell, cherry tomato, folded poem etc.

Afternoon (Painting) A swollen, blotchy old sun might not be our idea of a homely hearth. But who knows? Perhaps elsewhere such stars are home to life.

We're told that tidal action gives momentum to the Moon, thus aiding its recession; and that one day it will be too far away to produce total solar eclipses. Ice melt seems to contribute to the recession by increasing the tidal sloshing. Scientific American (June 14 2010) has an article on this at h...

A painting of Earth. Our 'visual vocabulary' has vastly expanded thanks to space photography. And art thrives on these new visions.