Celestial Map 2 of 2 (blue)

gicleé print on paper

image diametre: 700 mm

sheet size (square): 900 mm

edition size: 50

signed with studio blindstamp ‘mauritium’

“To watch and interpret the skies has always been one of man’s fundamental instincts. In all pre-industrial societies, real darkness filled a great part of men’s lives, and ancient civilisations built up a knowledge of the skies that was more precise than their knowledge of the world in which whey lived. To impose order on the expanse of star-filled sky, star groups in the form of animals, gods and heroes were created to be landmarks in the sky. With the heavens mapped in this way, it patterns could be used as fundamental gauges of direction and most importantly, of time, for no civilisation could progress without a calendar.”    

Peter Whitfield, The Mapping of the Heavens, 1995.