Astronomy of the Asphalt Ecliptic

Astronomy of the Asphalt Ecliptic
2017 | a series of five signs installed in existing sign structures in the Baepler Xeric Garden, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada Las Vegas
| vinyl panels | 18 x 24 inches each

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The ecliptic is the imaginary plane that the sun appears to travel upon in the sky above you; stars and planets shift through it. Las Vegas itself is another plane defined by the daily and yearly travels of the sun—an asphalt ecliptic. Astronomy of the Asphalt Ecliptic charts its constellations of celestially-named businesses on a series of existing signs in the Baepler Xeric Garden, calling attention to visible and invisible phenomena in the surrounding city.

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Facing east across Las Vegas

Facing northwest across Las Vegas

Facing southeast across Las Vegas

Facing north across Las Vegas