[...]ce cannot sustain their claim to be uncontaminated by the modern imperial process
precolonial poetic traditions in the persianate sphere (influenced by persian)
systematic observation of the moon and its light
studying soft moonlight
moon
boundary of the terrestrial domain
bediator between this world and the next
moonlight
moon changes constantly
reddish
orange
gold
yellow
white
the moon changes its course frequently because it is not able to master the cold
when moon light...
upon moon lands...
out of reach moon was an object of pure observation
scorching missiles of Helios
allurement
cheerfulness
harmlessness
look upward yonder at the bright clear sky
and what it holds
the moon, the radiance of the splendour-sun
moon-dwellers
icaromenippus Lucian’s satire about the moon lamenting the lack of imagination of ancient astronomers
trans-lunar celestial spheres
great intellectual abstraction is necessary to explain the appearances in the sky
Plato creates an image if completely harmonious world structure which makes circular rotating movements by means of spindles
Aristotle’s design gave a mechanical explanation for celestial phenomena (both terrestrial & astral physics)
Copernicus (
ibn Heisam
moonlight to be studies
ketab al manazir
size of the angle of deflection is so small that moonlight cannot be explained as sunlight
in 1609 Galilei’s telescope had 20x magnification
(moon’s) traces and spots
rough and full cavities and prominences
“let us not thing it an offence to suppose that she is earth and that for this which appears to be her face, just as our earth has certain great guilds, so that earth yawns with great depths and clefs which contain water or murky air, the interior of these the light of the sun doe not plump or even touch but it fails and the reflection which it send back here is discontinuous”
moon and the face of the observer
optical homogeneity of the regions of the moon
ibn Heisam
“you will not find any color without density, because a body that s extremely transparent is not dense and therefor it has no color. for this reason we maintain that the color of a body can be equated with its density”
eclipse of the moon
da Vinci's report
Galilei
lunar waterlands (in Kepler’s dream journey Somnium https://frostydrew.org/papers.dc/papers/paper-somnium/)
Kepler saw (in the moon craters) large circular buildings that moon
s inhabitants (endymionians) had erect to drain the swamps
science and cartography of th physical features of the moon
Hevelius
W.
moon’s waxing phase
“what if the atmosphere had really withdrawn to this dark face? and if air, why not water? would not this be enough to infuse life into the whole continent? why should noy vegetation flourish on its plains, fish in its seas, animals in its forests, and man in every one of its zones that were capable of sustaining life? to these interesting questions, what a satisfaction it would be to be able to answer positively one wat or another! for thousands of difficult problems a mere glimpse at this hemisphere would be enough to furnish a satisfactory reply. how glorious it would be to contemplate a real, on which the eye of man has never yet rested!” (Jules Verne, All Around the Moon)
the side of the moon facing earth is being gradually eroded by earth’s gravitation
Pythagoreans
“
the black sea sparkle with lustrous fires, like the ceiling of a vast hall of ebony encrusted with flashing diamonds
with what a soft sweet light every star glowed
no matter what its magnitude, the stream that flowed from it looked calm and holy
not twinkling
no scintillation
no nictitation
disturbed their pure and lambent gleam
night dreams (after WIELS's exhibition)
starting with the story of the jinn studying origin of species
mix of reports from Hedayat'neyrangestan
tree
scared face
book Skala
royal fairy tales
baba jaga kostliva noha / bony legs
the first worm
self-reflective
you are following, while being followed, and the one who follows you is being followed...
pop-up book
theater director
scenography in artistic research
my early interest in stage design
(in my work