
Studies of falls
- Publisher
- Outer Space Press
- Year
- 2022
- Specifications
- Clothbound hardcover, debossed, smyth sewn with black thread
24 x 33 cm
108 pages
Risograph and image transfer, artist's own technique
Meta Extrarough Warm White 150 gsm paper
Edition of 150 copies
At 2:46 pm on 30 November 1954, Ann Hodges of Sylacauga, Alabama, was napping on her couch when a nine-pound, 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite crashed through the ceiling, bounced off her radio and bruised her thigh: the only well-documented case of a person struck by a rock from space. Taking the Hodges fall as its starting point, the photobook examines the meteorite as a mysterious physical object and the role that chance and accident play in our lives, inspired by the theory that collisions do not destroy but create. The visual material comes from "The Project Physics Course Handbook: Concepts of Motion", from Google image search and from H. H. Nininger's "Out of the Sky: An Introduction to Meteoritics".