The Pleiades - Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger or Sidereal Message) by Galileo in March 1610. (Smithsonian Libraries)
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First-Order Lighthouse at Punta de los Reyes, Seacoast of California, Eadweard Muybridge, 1871
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Osaka-based artist Yasuaki Onishi uses humble, simple materials – black glue, plastic sheets, nylon thread – but somehow a large space is majestically occupied with his inverted landscapes, the “reverse of volume”, allowing a viewer to occupy a space that would otherwise, perceptively, be given over to something of monumental density.
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