“You look at the outside of what’s meant to represent the celestial sphere, which is actually the opposite of its form. Our position in relation to it is inverted; in fact, we are inside the sphere looking out, not on the outside looking at this globe. But we’ve learned to read it, even though it shouldn’t make sense.”—Matt Mulican on “Planetarium,” his interactive scale model of the solar system, a project for Triple Canopy programmed by Patrick Smith. Above image: the print companion of the project, From Me (in Space).
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“You look at the outside of what’s meant to represent the celestial sphere, which is actually the opposite of its form. Our position in relation to it is inverted; in fact, we are inside the sphere looking out, not on the outside looking at this globe. But we’ve learned to read it, even though it shouldn’t make sense.”—Matt Mulican on “Planetarium,” his interactive scale model of the solar system, a project for Triple Canopy programmed by Patrick Smith. Above image: the print companion of the project, From Me (in Space).

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“Astronomical” is a scale model of our solar system in twelve 500 page volumes printed-on-demand. On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of each page equals one million kilometres.”—Mishka Henner For another interactive, scale model of the solar system, see Matt Mulican’s  ”Planetarium,” in Triple Canopy issue 10, where you can navigate freely in space.
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“Astronomical” is a scale model of our solar system in twelve 500 page volumes printed-on-demand. On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of each page equals one million kilometres.”—Mishka Henner

For another interactive, scale model of the solar system, see Matt Mulican’s  ”Planetarium,” in Triple Canopy issue 10, where you can navigate freely in space.

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