Star Transcriptions 2018

These works originated in a series of long-exposure astrophotographs taken at night on the Coxs River on the Western side of the Blue Mountains. We camped amongst the granite boulders in a campsite we informally called Falling Water.  I then traced out star constellations that my eye was drawn to. A painterly layer from the image was generated by continual reprocessing of various algorithms and filters in specialised astrophotography software, exaggerating and reinforcing the signal in each pass, bringing out resonant frequencies buried within the file. Ultimately I see these as painterly hybrids between painting and photography.