Second Moon by Katie Paterson
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Accession Code: WU1007
Title: Second Moon Date completed: 2014 Classification: Print Medium: Archival Inkjet Print Height (mm): 352 Width (mm): 566 Depth (mm): Inscription: Location Name: Physics Location Description: Shared Space Location Floor: 1 |
Photograph: John McKenzie
Image courtesy the Artist and Ingleby, Edinburgh.
Katie Paterson's fascination with the mysteries of the universe has often led to her collaborating with scientists, particularly astronomers and astrophysicists. In 2013 she arranged for a small piece of moon rock to be carried on a commercial satellite orbiting the earth. Travelling at twice the speed of the moon this 鈥榮econd moon鈥� made thirty orbits of the earth between September 2013 and August 2014 and could be tracked on a free app in relation to the user鈥檚 position and the position of the actual moon.
This print is an offshoot of the project, capturing two views from the Second Moon app of a partial eclipse between the Earth鈥檚 moon and Paterson鈥檚 moon.