Star Sphere
Two thousand six hundred points of light, evenly spread over nothing at all.
About the piece
The points are placed by a Fibonacci sphere — nature’s own way of packing seeds into a sunflower — then tilted and flattened onto the page. Points on the near side print large and bright; points on the far side shrink into the navy until they read as dust.
It is the slowest piece in the studio: at full resolution the plotter takes most of a night to lay down every star.
Details
The ground is a deep indigo-navy mixed for this piece alone. Under gallery spots the bright points lift off the surface; in dim rooms the whole sphere smoulders.
Each edition is plotted — not printed — so every point is a physical touch of the pen. No two editions plot identically.
Pack the sphere
Fibonacci distribution lays 2,600 points with near-perfect evenness.
Tilt & flatten
A slight tilt gives the sphere its lean; depth drives size and opacity.
Night plot
Plotted dot by dot overnight in pale ink on the navy ground.
“We dim the gallery for Star Sphere and visitors go quiet. It does something to a room that I can’t brief for and can’t fake.” — Petra Nyholm, curator, Galleri Mørkt
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Star Sphere plots to order in three sizes, framed or unframed.