Project Moonlight || Art Exhibition

Humanity has always been captivated by the night sky. The sky’s perfect cyclical regularity is one of the few guaranteed aspects of life, shaping collective worldviews throughout history and personal connections with life’s order. Ancient peoples across cultures have used the stars to tell time, determine directions, and sew and harvest crops. They have also been used to determine when to wed, pray and hunt. These awesome cycles and our connection with them is the essence of Project Moonlight. It is the emotional pull of the movements of the heavens that reminds us of the cycles of life. These astral phenomena ground us in the now and point us to where we need to go, much like a lighthouse beacon in the distance. My work on Project Moonlight has taken about two man-years of my life, and thousands of miles on the open road.

As we collectively and personally navigate the seasons of life, the guiding lights seen in the dark remind us of our purpose and give guidance. Project Moonlight highlights these cycles in the night sky by capturing the thirteen full moons of 2023, the Perseids and Geminids meteor showers, and the total solar eclipse of 2024. Utilizing Augmented Reality (AR), Project Moonlight will place you in direct observance of these remarkable events in the sky.

The names for each full moon in Project Moonlight comes from the Farmer’s Almanac, which in turn got their names from the indigenous nations of North America in the 1930’s. This includes but is not limited to the Aalgonquian, Ojibwe, Cree, Cherokee, Dakota and Tlingit nations. Using these names was wise because they explain the natural cycle occurring during each full moon of the year. Each name implies a relationship with the natural world and how to best move forward with each coming lunar cycle.