Merope
PlateThe archive. A photographic plate is a negative, so stars come out dark on pale stock — this is the thing an observer actually handled.Two ways of recording the same sky.SkyThe observation itself. The same stars, the way they looked before the glass.Two ways of recording the same sky.

Notes

Writing from the studio: what gets built here, what it is made of, and the parts that turned out to be wrong.

2026