Description
As seen in The New Territory Issue 09, “Calling to the Stars” by Matt Mason sees a new light in this letterpress broadside by Katerina Hazell. Katerina is The NT’s founding creative director, and we’re so lucky she returned to us for an artistic interpretation of one spectacular poem.
The text is set in metal type, and the image is relief printed using photopolymer plates exposed from hand-cut rubylith negatives.
From the artist, Katerina Hazell:
I love how the poem juxtaposes stars as living and organic, against stars as finite and knowable. My favorite lines are “not these ledger entries / identified by constellations of number and alphabet, / all written down on tabletops of rag-paper pages / next to digits and dashes and columns, . . .” I am low-key obsessed with early modern printed books about astronomy, attempts to describe the night sky in rational, mathematic terms. There are charts, and they are charmingly imperfect and handmade.
I chose imagery that I hope mirrors that concept—the geometric stars are inspired by quilt patterns. They are rigidly geometric but remind me of warmth and humanity at the same time. The image is printed from photopolymer from hand-cut rubylith negatives, rather than digitally printed negatives—if you look closely you can catch all the small imperfections that resulted from my long afternoon spent cutting tiny squares and triangles with an X-Acto knife.
10″ x 13″ unframed
acid-free cotton rag paper
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