Article: Watching the Skies.

Science has long fascinated abstract artist Dorothea Rockburne. A recent show of drawings followed her exploration of astronomical themes over the last decade.

In 1991, while Dorothea Rockburne was in residence at the American Academy in Rome, an event occurred that made a lasting impression on the artist. During a visit to a 17th-century villa, which, mysteriously, she has never been able to locate again, Rockburne came upon a room ornamented by a breathtaking fresco of the skies, of the planets and their orbits, constellations, stars. Looking at this celestial diagram, she heard a "devil" in her head say, "Rockburne, you can do that." Then she heard another, ...

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