STAR DATA, was created in 2023 after working with the Harvard College Observatory’s Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The project began by looking through 2 boxes of photographic prints dated 1890 -1919 of the North Polar Sequence and Harvard Standard Regions. Many of these celestial prints were dotted with exquisite handwritten marks - letters, numbers, symbols - by the Harvard Computers (a team of women astronomers), coded inventories of the night sky. These marks inspired the STAR DATA portfolio. Choosing 7 photographs to work with, the hand-cut circles in each of the 8 resulting artworks represent the location of a Harvard Computer’s hand drawn notation atop the corresponding photographic print.

STAR DATA is an homage to the pioneering Harvard Computers and the utility and accessibility of the analog archive. The project is also a nod to the computer punch card; a form of data storage ubiquitously used in early to mid-20th century information processing where information was held within empty punched out spaces.