Star Data, is an homage to the pioneering Harvard Computers and the utility and accessibility of the analog archive.
Each artwork in the Star Data portfolio references a specific photographic print of either a Harvard Standard Region or the North Polar Sequence found within the Harvard College Observatory Photographic Plate Stacks.These photographic prints are dotted with exquisite handwritten marks - letters, numbers, symbols - by the Harvard Computers (women astronomers), their coded inventories of the night sky. Each hand cut circle in this portfolio marks the location of one of the Computer's notations generating a new constellation of marks.