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Manual 19 (Many Moons) looks up to the skies to consider astronomy and space
travel and ponder broader, more ancient associations, including the night in all its inky
glory; tides, time, and calendars; the feminine; reflections and mirrors; love and
enduring companionship; and lunacy, strangeness, and magic.
From the Files
Dominic Molon contemplates the alien artifice of Meredyth Sparks’s Space Oddity
Kate Irvin navigates the shimmering protection of Tavares Strachan’s B.A.S.E.C. Flight
Jacket
Double Takes
Karen ní Mheallaigh and Katy Schimert shine a little light on a small Roman lamp
John Kenny and Evelyn Lincoln glean new meanings from a 1617 German farming
calendar
Margaret Masselli and Srinivas Reddy illuminate an early 18th-century Indian miniature
scene of women in a garden
Jack Madden and Jennifer L. Roberts map Nancy Graves’s Plate VI Maskeyne Da
Region of the Moon
Artist on Art
Aymar Ccopacatty reflects on Olga de Amaral’s Cesta Lunar 24 (Moon Basket)
Portfolio
Mooning over the RISD Museum collection
Object Lessons
Sarah Mirseyedi eyes symbolism and meaning in the work of Odilon Redon
Maria Morris Hambourg looks to Julia Margaret Cameron’s portrait of astronomer John
Herschel
How To
See things differently, using tarot cards made by the RISD Art Circle Teens
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