Medium

2012

Created in 2012, these two drawings centre on the Kepler Space Telescope’s field of view, a narrow but profound window into deep space, through which thousands of distant stars and planetary systems have been observed. As with much of my work, these drawings explore the tension between the very large and the very small, using mark-making as a way to navigate the scale and abstraction inherent in scientific perception.

These works also engage with the idea of the “medium” or the imagined fabric of space-time itself. Through the repetition of lines, fields of visual noise and data-like arrangements, the drawings evoke a speculative cartography of the cosmos suggesting that our attempts to map the universe are always shaped by the instruments we use and the limits of our own perception.