Jaclyn Wright
Publication
2018
8.5 x 11 inches
215.9 x 279.4 mm
Clear Coil Binding
Digital Offset
Color
70 pages
Edition of 200
2016
Out of print
Artist Copy
Laser Cut and Engraved Acrylic Covers
8.5 x 11 inches
215.9 x 279.4 mm
Clear Coil Binding
Digital Offset
Color70 pages
Edition of 10 (acrylic cover types vary)
Out of print
Released at the 2016 LA Art Book Fair.
Held in the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
In Afterglow, artist Jaclyn Wright explores the ever-expanding edges of our universe. Many key phenomena in our understanding of the universe, including black holes, gamma-ray bursts, dark matter, and dark energy, remain unseen directly. This is either because they do not emit light in optical wavelengths or because the universe is so immense that we might not be observing the right regions at the right moments. Intea d, we rely on symbolic systems like mathematics, language, and art to represent these elusive aspects of the cosmos. The images in Afterglow offer not only a symbolic representation of these phenomena but have been organized by processes similar to those responsible for generating such phenomena in the first place—heat, density, mass, and time. Afterglow is compact, orientable, spacelike.