ANN BURKE DALY + MARION BELANGER
IN COLLABORATION
Temporal Dislocations (Vernal Equinox) is a series of photographic images of the vernal equinox night sky made with collected astronomical files and found text that we interlace with our own photographic images and text, in speculative narratives about time, weather, sleep disturbances and dreams, historic women astronomers, and collaboration itself. The March equinox denotes the beginning of astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of astronomical winter in the Southern Hemisphere. For most of the year the axis of the Earth is tilted either toward or away from the sun, but during the equinox the Earth’s axis and its orbit lineup so both hemispheres get an almost exact equal amount of day and night darkness. Symbolically this balance of light represents rebirth, renewal, and universal unity. The vast and expanding cosmos is where we direct ourselves in this moment which feels like an aporia for climate change, the environment, and all species.