Moon, 2015

Courtesy of the artist

Laura Parker is a Southern California artist whose series Star Writings uses the inherent unsteadiness of a human body teetering against gravity while aiming a hand-held, opened-shutter camera at targeted celestial bodies and “writing” letters. The result is an epiphenomenon, a sky versus artist dance, a byproduct of bombarding photons of ancient light, and the erratic jitter that results from reconciling artistic desire with gravitational mischief. The skirmish succeeds when the letters, lines and shapes choreograph human meaning from the raw elements of nature’s forces.