Description

Joan Miró made twenty-three small gouaches between 1939 and 1941 he called Constellations. They were his attempt at finding order in chaos through fixed reference points. Stars. Half-formed creatures he called "personnages." Eyes, ladders, the moon, all stitched together by hairline ink. A private symbolic language used to map an inner cosmos against an outer one. They look like ciphers because they sort of are, ultimately only Miró knows their true meaning, but I've always been inspired by them to say the least.

So, in Constellations each digit is a personnage too, each anchors to its own little yellow star, and a mesh of "ink" lines forms to connect them all into a unique constellation. Every minute the whole composition reorganizes around four new shapes. A new cipher, a new reference point to contemplate.

The "0" in the time is a watcher, a little creature with a yellow iris that gazes out along a dotted line to wherever the next 0 happens to be, constantly searching for meaning.