200 moons, 2024

4x4" film mosaic constructed from 35mm and 120 color negatives
scanned with a digital camera

This work commemorates the 200 full moons that have passed since February 2008.

The image in the center of this mosaic is a photograph of the full moon on April 23rd, 2024, captured through the mirrors of a 16" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. It is a medium-format color film negative exposed with a Pentax 6x7 camera. Circling the moon are 12 images of the April 8th solar eclipse from my vantage point in Connecticut (~92% magnitude) exposed with a Nikon 35mm camera. All the other negatives were created in February 2008.

The film was cut up and reassembled over a light table to produce a 4x4" film mosaic, which was digitally scanned and color inverted.