Heavenly Body is inspired by a hand coloured map of the moon created by the German cartographer Johann Georg Justus Perthes and published for Stieler’s Atlas of 1880.

The artwork seeks to capture the moon as a bejeweled globe that floats effortlessly in the ether - the mysterious substance once thought to suffuse the universe, and the medium that propagated light.

ORIGINATOR · Mike de Sousa

ART FORM · Abstract Art

COMPLETED · 2015

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