My Heavens

Artist: Jane Hammond, American, born 1950
Printer: Shark's Ink, Lyons, Colorado, founded 1976
Publisher: Shark's Ink, Lyons, Colorado, founded 1976
Date: 2004
Material: Lithograph with silver mylar and chine collé
made in: Lyons, Colorado, United States, North and Central America
Classification: Prints
Collection: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: sheet: 30 3/8 × 51 1/4 in. (77.2 × 130.2 cm)
framed: 36 3/8 × 57 3/8 in. (92.4 × 145.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons; and funds given by the Marian Cronheim Trust for Prints and Drawings, Museum Purchase, Friends Endowment Fund, The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund, and the Eliza McMillan Purchase Fund
Rights: © Jane Hammond
Object Number: 618:2020

NOTES

This vibrantly colored star map is filled with creatures in flight, as well as antlered mammals and humans in dynamic poses. Given that all celestial constellations are born of images in the stars as perceived by humans, Jane Hammond echoed this act of creating order out of chaos by using images that are repeated throughout her body of work. To imitate shining stars, she single-handedly cut out each one, exposing the silver Mylar sheet beneath the paper.

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