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Notes for a Romantic Encyclopedia
2012
perforated aluminium slides,
wallpaper, projector, 35mm slides
(2/2) Back




The remaining star constellations from Ptolemy (2nd century) that we still officially recognise today are projected onto 1960's wallpaper from a 1960's slide projector. In a reference to German Romanticism, the wallpaper is covered with the motif of blue flowers.