Each print in this series depicts a single sphere, the convergence of my abstract aerial paintings which evolved into receding views of earth from farther and farther into outer space. I began exploring the interplay of color with the geometry of the sphere and the imagined and forced perspectives created by this receding view.

The hard-edge abstractions of my paintings were taken one step further in these simple spheres I created and defined by geometric shapes. In this geometry I focused on the relationship between the positive and negative space formed by the hard-edge lattice of geometric facets.

This lattice or grid employs perspective so that the flat field of shapes create a three-dimensional sphere, suggestive of volume and weight, that in its finished form is floating in a void.

What screen printing allowed me to do, that painting could not, was to make serial variations in color more accessible by printing the same geometric structure in different combinations of ground and figure.

In each color variation, the space between the shapes becomes its own atmosphere, its own light, its own sense of distance. It is as though we are viewing the same celestial body under entirely different conditions, from entirely different vantage points in space.

Together, this series becomes less a set of individual images than a single meditation on how color alone can transform our perception of form, depth, and movement. 

This is the same optical event that captivated me when I first witnessed our own Moon landing and, from that vantage point, saw Earth suspended in black space for the first time.