"I
once owned a Schmidt-Cassegrain catadioptic telescope that was
so powerful you could see the rings of Saturn and count
Neptune’s moons. Then it was stolen and soon after I lost
interest in star gazing. Instead, I began to take an interest in
the night sky and deep space as a subject for art. Hubble Space
telescope images offer good source material – but I did not want
to emulate astrophotography in the way photorealists copy
photographs; I did not want to represent what is real any more
than science fiction does. Instead, my intention was to use the
cosmos as metaphor for human longing."
(From the catalogue text published
with the exhibition So far, so close at
Blockprojects,
October-November 2010)
