Manual / Issue 19

From the Files

Dominic Molon contemplates the alien artifice of Meredyth Sparks’s Space Oddity

Kate Irvin navigates the shimmering protection of Tavares Strachan’s B.A.S.E.C. Flight Jacket

Double Takes

Karen ní Mheallaigh and Katy Schimert shine a little light on a small Roman lamp

John Kenny and Evelyn Lincoln glean new meanings from a 1617 German farming calendar 

Margaret Masselli and Srinivas Reddy illuminate an early 18th-century Indian miniature scene of women in a garden

Jack Madden and Jennifer L. Roberts map Nancy Graves’s Plate VI Maskeyne Da Region of the Moon 

Artist on Art

Aymar Ccopacatty reflects on Olga de Amaral’s Cesta Lunar 24 (Moon Basket)

Portfolio 

Mooning over the RISD Museum collection

Object Lessons

Sarah Mirseyedi eyes symbolism and meaning in the work of Odilon Redon

Maria Morris Hambourg looks to Julia Margaret Cameron’s portrait of astronomer John Herschel

How To

See things differently, using tarot cards made by the RISD Art Circle Teens 

Manual 19: Many Moons is accompanied by a special Spotify playlist. Access Moon  Songs here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7KSih6J7wR3SRSJhsO23Ol]