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"SATURN AND TWINS"
2006 : 35cm x 59cm : Digital print on semi-gloss paper

This piece was composed out of several fragments of the main Sky Blue piece. I wanted to suggest an important point in the mythical history of mankind. Around the time that Gemini was the constellation at the vernal equinox, mankind began to realise that the sky moved in a great precession which caused the vernal equinox and other solstice points to move very slowly around the sky. There are many myths across the world that record this realisation, and it is often expressed as Old Father Time (aka Saturn, or Wiraqocha) beginning to move the sky using a mill. Thus, Saturn is here depicted with his plumb bob measuring the depths of the ocean, along with the Twins who first noticed this world-changing event.

 

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