.In fall the days start to fade away charts the stars overhead in Newburgh, NY at 2:19 pm on September 22nd, the exact moment of the autumnal equinox. This moment marks the planetary shift from summer to fall in the Northern Hemisphere–and shorter, darker days.
During the Terrain Biennial Newburgh, this sky map was aligned to where you were standing so that you could see the stars made invisible by the Sun, but always all around you. It is printed as a cyanotype, a photographic process which uses the Sun to reveal images in shades of blue, resembling the colors of a daytime sky. This map remained sensitive to sunlight and faded over the course of the biennial (September 27-November 15, 2025), mirroring in time the fading daylight as we shifted towards winter.
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In the fall the days start to fade away | 2025 | cyanotype on cotton | 44 x 75 inches
above photo taken September 27th, below photo taken October 24th
