Chicago (360˚) - Astrological Cycles, Ecological Change
A Chicago story of an “era of earth,” marked by an extractive industrial worldview that permanently altered Chicago’s land, water, and air, and peoples, told through the language of the stars.
Star Maps
Copper domes (hammered copper, light), 2024
Star map, Chicago at night (September). City stars as visible through contemporary light pollution
Chicago Union Stockyards (December 25, 1865). Astrological chart and starscape of the moment of the opening of Union Stockyards.
Chicago River Sanitary and Ship Canal Opens and the Chicago River is reversed (January 2, 1900, 7:30am). Stars along the ecliptic, January, 1900, Astrological chart of the moment the Chicago River is permanently reversed.
on the desk
Great Chicago Fire Begins Behind 137 DeKoven St. (October 8, 1871, 9pm). Astrological chart of the moment the Great Chicago Fire began. Chicago wood blocks extracted from original Nicolson pavement, asphalt, copper, 2024
Chicago (360˚): Astrological Cycles, Ecological Change, Artist’s book, risograph, ink
drawings for the study of astrology. risograph, ink
copper cones, copper sheet metal
