"Comets"
watercolor on paper-mounted panel,
2.75" x 1.25", 2008
Comet Hyakutake passed by In 1996, which was also the peak of my backyard astronomy phase. My father and I took the telescope and our cameras out to some rural corner of Harford County Maryland and took some shots. I recall being on the edges of a farm that was completely dark save for a huge tree that was illuminated an eerie green by a nearby spotlight (or maybe it was an enormous bug zapper). Either way we got some good shots of the comet. Years later, I found one of these snapshots. It seemed like a fitting subject for an uber-tiny watercolor; doubled up (as most of my paintings from that time) for a kind of film strip effect.
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