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Marieke McKenna

Central Library, The Hague

Winter Solstice

A winter solstice performance: a musical journey and sonic collage through the history of astronomy and global winter mythology.

The Nebra sky disc: a bronze disc with a gold sun or full moon, a crescent moon and a cluster of stars — The Nebra sky disc, c. 1800–1600 BCE. State Museum of Prehistory, Halle. Photo: Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0

Engraving of the astronomer Hipparchus on an observatory terrace at night, measuring the stars, beside an armillary sphere and a sphinx — Hipparchus in the observatory of Alexandria, engraving from Ridpath’s History of the World, 1894

From my cabinet of curiosities

A turning sphere of images I collect: sky discs, star charts, spirals, shells and suns.

Curious about the collection?