Private Planetariums

Old sheets, black-out drapery fabric,
tent poles, cushions.
Each tent is 5′ x 6′ x 4 
Each cushion 18″x18″.
2003-2005

According to the patterns of the flowers on the sheets, I punched holes in the white black-out fabric. When viewers enter the tent they see pinpoints of light that mimic constellation patterns. I made three tents to represent the three aspects of astrological signs: the sun, moon, and rising signs. In this case the tents refer to: Virgo/earth/green; Aries/fire/pink; and Cancer/water/blue. When I found sheets depicting cosmos flowers, I became interested in how the flower pattern, when transferred onto the blackout fabric, could represent how an idea of the cosmos is projected onto patterns seen in the stars.

Photo credit: Ryan Suter and Karen Stentaford