In the middle of the day, you can’t see all the stars in the sky because the Sun—the star closest to you—is in the way. I plotted them out in The sky above you at solar noon on the longest day of the year or underneath your feet at night so that you could finally see them. The sky is mapped as it appears over New York at 1pm on the summer solstice, when the Sun is at its peak for the day and year. Even though the sky seems to move and change a little bit every day, the positions of the stars still approximate what you can’t see from other places in the Northern Hemisphere on other days in early summer. This map of invisible constellations can be shown upside-down or downside-up, looking north or south, depending on which way you are oriented.
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The sky above you at solar noon on the longest day of the year or underneath your feet at night | 2024 | Ink, pencil, paint, artist tape and vinyl letters on pages from a used book about the sun | 63 x 102 inches
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Installation views at The Ovid Gallery, Pine Hill, New York.
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