objects in the field
Objects in the Field was produced during an artist fellowship at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. It reflects upon the artist's encounter with Dr Roderick Willstrop, a retired astronomer, and his archive of photographic negatives made in the 1980s, when Willstrop designed and built The Three Mirror Telescope camera in the grounds of the Institute.
Rickett appropriated a number of the now obsolete images, reprinting them by hand using the analogue process and altering them through her own subjective and aesthetic decisions.
The resulting works subvert the images' original scientific purpose and at the same time act as a retrieval, or 'rescue' of the archive.
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