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When the cosmos aligned, if only briefly and largely unnoticed

Troy Gronsdahl, The moment when the cosmos aligned, if only briefly and largely unnoticed Equinox, total solar eclipse & perigee moon, March 20, 2015, 4:45 p.m. local timeTroy Gronsdahl - The moment when the cosmos aligned, if only briefly and largely unnoticed Equinox, total solar eclipse & perigee moon, March 20, 2015, 4:45 p.m. local time Solstice, June 21, 2015, 10:38 a.m. local time

When the cosmos aligned, if only briefly and largely unnoticed.
Equinox, total solar eclipse & perigee moon, March 20, 2015, 4:45 p.m. local time
Solstice, June 21, 2015, 10:38 a.m. local time
cyanotype

Troy Gronsdahl, The moment when the cosmos aligned, if only briefly and largely unnoticedTroy Gronsdahl, The moment when the cosmos aligned, if only briefly and largely unnoticedTroy Gronsdahl, The moment when the cosmos aligned, if only briefly and largely unnoticed

In an ongoing series of cyanotypes, I draw on the historical associations of monochrome painting while playing in its ambiguous zones of interpretive possibility. By exposing paper treated with a cyanotype solution to natural light, these photographic prints are a record of an cosmological event, yet the claim made by the title cannot be verified by the contents of its image.