Astrological Putt

“Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity. The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.”

“We take the...world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are impertinent. More than half the stars in the universe are orphan-stars belonging to no constellation. And they give off more light than all the constellation stars.”

-John Berger, Confabulations, 2008

The project embodies the notion that the night sky is not composed of just known constellations or named stars- that the dimmest, smallest, and loneliest stars are all part of the universe. In the words of David Mitchell, “what is an ocean but a multitude of drops?” and what is the night sky but a group of different stars? It is this massive collective that constantly allows new constellations to be formed by simply connecting them as we see fit.