Issue 19
Many Moons
Issue 19 — Digital Preview
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Badly Licked Bear
INTRODUCTION
We Are All under the Same Moon -
Sarah Mirseyedi
OBJECT LESSON
When the Moon Hits Your Eye: Symbolism and Meaning in the Work of Odilon Redon
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Kate Irvin
FROM THE FILES
For “Explorers of Space and Mind”: Tavares Strachan’s B.A.S.E.C. Flight Jacket
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John Kenny / Evelyn Lincoln
DOUBLE TAKE
Farmer's Calendar
Worldcat ↗
Contributors
Badly Licked Bear
Aymar Ccopacatty
Julia Gualtieri
Maria Morris Hambourg
Kate Irvin
John Kenny
Evelyn Lincoln
Jack Madden
Margaret Masselli
Karen ní Mheallaigh
Sarah Mirseyedi
Dominic Molon
Srinivas Reddy
RISD Art Circle (RAC)
Jennifer L. Roberts
Katy Schimert
Issue 19—Many Moons
Approximately thirteen moons ago, I asked myself: Is it possible to live under a lunar calendar?
What would such a life reveal? What happens when you measure life in months instead of years? How would you interface with the databases that underlie digitized capitalism? Where to begin?
One begins with one’s own body, of course. Has science fiction taught us nothing?
—Badly Licked Bear, introduction
Manual 19 looks up to the skies to consider astronomy and space travel and ponder broader, more ancient associations, including the night in all its inky glory; tides, time, and calendars; the feminine; reflections and mirrors; love and enduring companionship; and lunacy, strangeness, and magic.
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
Artists on Art
Aymar Ccopacatty reflects on Olga de Amaral’s Cesta Lunar 24 (Moon Basket)
Portfolio
Reflections on the 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
Read an oracle deck using tarot cards made by the RISD Art Circle Teens & Julia Gualtieri
RISD Museum director: Tsugumi Maki
Manual editor-in-chief: Sarah Ganz Blythe
Editor: Amy Pickworth
Art director: Derek Schusterbauer
Graphic designer: Brendan Campbell
Graphic design assistants: Jason Ma, Rebecca Wilkinson
Digital designer: Brendan Campbell
Rights manager: Sionan Guenther
Photographer: Erik Gould (unless otherwise noted)
Printer: GHP
Manual 19: Many Moons is accompanied by a special Spotify playlist. Access Moon Songs here
Cover image:
Jonathan Cramp
b. 1930 in Ninfield, Sussex, UK; works in UK
The Tide Is Out, mid-1900s
Watercolor on paper
Image/sheet: 41 × 35.5 cm (16 1/8 × 14 in.)
Anonymous gift 2016.80.36
