Friday Inspiration: Giants Causeway, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland

Friday Inspiration: I is for Eye*

*from Corita Kent "I is for Eye," a 1968 serigraph (second down from the right)

London Underground Map

{verso} London Underground Map from 1927, prior to the iconic redesign that untangled all the lines

{recto} Main Line map that encompasses most of the contemporary area known as Zone 1

Note the spelling!

Moon Landing (as seen on TV)

Brought to you by the letter Z...

Boxing Day

Chair Constellations (I) | Risograph on vintage book page | 6.25 x 9.5" | 2016

Corita Kent

Found in my recent wanderings: a vintage postcard from a 1974 series by Corita Kent (5x7")

Tiny Diagrams

Tiny Diagrams | three color Riso print on vintage graph paper | artist's proof (full bleed with trim marks) | 2016

From the archives

{Circa 2009} Smash Records | collage, linoblock, and hand stitching on a vintage 45 record sleeve | 7x7"

Friday Inspiration: Cosmic Morse Code

Friday Inspiration: Et sic in infinitum

The primordial darkness of the universe at the moment before creation, as represented in a plate in Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica, atque Technica Historia (The Metaphysical, Physical, and Technical History of the Two Worlds, Namely the Greater and the Lesser) published by Robert Fludd in 1617. The words Et sic in infinitum (“and like this to infinity”) are written on all four sides of the square

Friday Inspiration: Cosmographics (Part 4: Orbits)

{left} Le Sphere de Monde by Oronce Fine, 1549  {right} Zubdet ut Tevarih by Lokman, 1583

{left} From Les Echecs amoureux ("Amorous Chess") made for Louise of Savoy, 15th c. {right} Attributed to the atelier of the Catalan Master of St Mark, last quarter of the 14th c.

{left} The Book of Secrets, France, 1656 {right}  Disquisitiones Mathematicae de Controversiis et Novitatibus Astronomicis Christoph Scheiner,  1614

Friday Inspiration: Chairs...

(Found in my wanderings) An engraving of a chair in perspective, published in 1792

Friday Inspiration: Cosmographics (Part 3: Stellar Bodies)

{top left}  From an edition of Abd ar-rahman Al-Sufi’s Liber locis Stellarum Fixarum, 964 {top right} Aratus Solensis Grotii Syntagma Arateorum, 1600 {bottom} Uranometria by Johann Bayer, 1603

Solar Man and Solar Woman from Solar Biology, by Hiram E. Butler (1887)

Friday Inspiration: Cosmographics (Part 2: Eclipses)

Johannes Regiomontanus Calendar published in Venice in 1482

{left} Solar Eclipses Physician’s Almanac, England ca. 1430-1431 {right} Kalender of the Shepherdes Table for Eclipses published in the 1490s in Paris by Guy Marchant and Antoine Vérard.

Eclipses luminarium by Cyprian Leowitz (1554)

Friday Inspiration: Cosmographics (Part 1: the Moon)

{left} Galileo's drawings of the moon from 1610  {right} The Moon published in Galileo's Sidereus nuncius, 1610

Johann Zahn Specula physico-mathematico-historica 1696

{left} An early photograph of the Moon, a daguerreotype taken by John W. Draper, March 26, 1840, in New York. {Right} First published photograph of the moon, 1840

Friday Inspiration: Illuminated...

(Found in my wanderings) 19th century museum chromo lithographs of 14th century illuminated manuscripts

Friday Inspiration: Currently...

{one} Alexander Calder gouaches

{two}  Corita Kent screenprints

{three} The First Six Books Of The Elements Of Euclid by Oliver Byrne (Chiswick Press, 1847)

Portrait of the artist...

18

(Spread No. 18) vintage notebook page and woodblock on vintage paper, 14 x 7" opened