Diane Granahan “In Nature’s Infinite Book of Secrecy A little I can read.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
Detail of Marcus Gheeraerts II, Anne Hawtrey, Mrs Saunders, 1620s
Girl of Tehuantepec with her Lace Huipil
Detail of Abraham de Bosse, Les femmes à table en l’absence de leurs maris, c.1635
Robert Irwin, Untitled, 1967
“Sparse umbels in the shadows; constellations of sorts that are more familiar, less bright, less cold and especially less fixed than those that could seemingly respond to them from above the trees once the day’s beautiful veil has been drawn.” — Philippe Jaccottet, Hamlet – And, Nonetheless: Selected Prose and Poetry 1990-2009
William Henry Fox Talbot, Lace, 1839
Making a Drawn-work Bedspread, Canary Islands, 20th century
Adam Walker, On Light, from A System of Familiar Philosophy, 1799
John McCracken, Five Paintings IV, 1974
Surveyor VII Spotting Two Laser Beams From Earth, January 30th, 1968
Rajasthan, Time and Space: The Square of Human Experience Within the Four Directions Extending to Infinity, 18th century
Maxmilian Franz Josef Cornelius Wolf and Johann Palisa, Star Map, from the Album Photographische Sternkarten, 1903
James Turrell, Afrum (White), 1966
Dedicated to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan for their devoted passion to exploring the unknown and to my parents who are responsible for inspiring my twin sister and I to view the world the way that we do.
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