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(Draco)

Eirini Boukla, '(Draco)', pen on paper balls, 2008. Photo: Richard Taylor. Courtesy: artist. “I wonder whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each of us may find our own again” (Draco). 2008. Ink on paper.When we gaze into the sky, what are we looking at? And how far does our gaze carry? Comparative mythology highlights striking cross-cultural similarities which strongly suggest that the core of most if not all ancient mythology has planetary origins. These modest drawings on paper spheres  invert notions of planet and sky, and paradoxically, depict both a very familiar place and no place in particular, and in terms of actual and psychological space, are both near and far.