beachobservatories

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BEACH OBSERVATORIES

2024

BEACH OBSERVATORIES, Object 001, 2024

Kineograph

247 Pages, Munken Pure 90gsm

Perfect bound

Black metallic end papers.

Soft cover in ‘Black Black’ Fabriano 370gsm

Matte laminated dust jacket, 300gsm Munken Pure

The Beach Observatories are a site of fictional astronomical observation, growing a collection of realia born of a space related fiction. Located on Beach Rd, Woodstock in Cape Town.

This soft cover kineograph is Object 001.

Black card is punctured with thousands of tiny holes and back lit by the sun to produce a short animated vision of a palm-sized supernova. Still frames are printed in sequence and perfect bound with soft cover and dust jacket.

Star Map, (Slide 3) , 2022.

Animated as a kineograph for OBJECT 001

View through the loupe.

Printed pages.

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