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  • When You Wish, ©2018, archival pigment print, 24.73” x 38”
    A ball and jacks are surrogates for a planet and stars in a spiral galaxy, alluding to the practice of wishing on a star or engaging
    in wishful thinking.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Starry Night 2, ©2013, archival pigment print, 10.4” x 14.5”
    A ball and jacks are surrogates for a planet and stars in a spiral galaxy, alluding to the practice of wishing on a star or
    engaging in wishful thinking.

    Image credits are in About the Art > Image Credits
     

    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Starry Night, archival pigment print, 11.25” x 18”
    A ball and jacks are surrogates for a planet and stars in a spiral galaxy, alluding to the practice of wishing on a star or
    engaging in wishful thinking.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • The High Road (CH3CH2OH), ©2018, archival pigment print, 31.75” x 35.1”
    Marbles as atoms in the dog-like ethanol molecule, floating “high” and far away from terrestrial and
    other realities.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • H2O, ©2017, archival pigment print, 20” x 39.5”
    Marble mouse heads in the form of water molecules, essential for the chemistry that makes life possible in the universe.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • H2O II, ©2017, archival pigment print, 20” x 61.4”
    Marble mouse heads in the form of water molecules, essential for the chemistry that makes life possible in the universe.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Many Moons, ©2018, archival pigment print, 20”x 88” and 11.9” x 52.36”
    Marbles as surrogates for many moons (an idiomatic expression for a long time ago) in the Milky Way.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Homes Sweet Homes, ©2018, archival pigment print, 40.38” x 40.25”
    Marbles and bowling balls as absurd future surrogate moon homes should flight from Earth
    become imminent.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Revolution, ©2017, archival pigment print, 40.5” x 40.25”
    Earth as a bowling ball and shocked emoji face responding to climate change and previous
    catastrophic Earth axis flips.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Revolution 2, ©2017, archival pigment print, 29” x 28.75”
    Earth as a bowling ball and shocked emoji face responding to climate change and previous
    catastrophic Earth axis flips.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

     

  • Spectacle, ©2018, archival pigment print, 10.8” x 20”
    A comparable marble planet and Earth in the form of eyes or eyeglasses, visionary in more ways than one in assessing
    present and future.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

     

  • Bounce (Io), ©2015, archival pigment print, 10.5” x 10”
    An absurd duet between a dodge ball, its inflation representing inspiration or breathing in,
    and Io, a satellite moon of Mars.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Shoot the Moon, ©2015, archival pigment print, 10.6” x 10.3”
    An absurd duet between a marble, acting as a surrogate moon, and Io, a
    satellite moon of Mars.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • By Jove, ©2013, archival pigment print, 7” x 4.8”
    Marbles as satellite moons around Jupiter.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted.
    All rights reserved.

  • Ring, ©2015, archival pigment print, 6.56” x 4.25”
    Marbles forming a ring of satellite moons around Jupiter.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted.
    All rights reserved.

  • Saturn’s Marble Moon, ©2013, archival pigment print, 5.6” x 3.7”
    A marble as a surrogate satellite moon orbiting Saturn.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted.
    All rights reserved.

  • Head Over Heels, ©2010, archival pigment print, 25.25” x 52”
    An astonished girl with a rocket pack explores the Carina Nebula.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Detail of Head Over Heels, ©2010, archival pigment print
    Close-up of an astonished girl with a rocket pack exploring the Carina Nebula.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Flying Colors, ink on vinyl mesh, 14’ x 100’, temporary mural for Office of Arts & Cultural Resources
    A spinning beanie, the propeller suggesting an actively engaged thinking cap, flies through the Carina Nebula.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Leap, ©2018, archival pigment print, 26.5” x 31.25”
    An astonished girl with a rocket pack leaps into the Helix Nebula.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Gloria, ©2010, archival pigment print, 26.5” x 31.25”
    An angel in the gloria (halo) of the Helix Nebula.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Detail of Gloria, ©2010, archival pigment print
    Close-up of an angel in the gloria (halo) of the Helix Nebula.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Duet, ©2010, archival pigment print, 6.25” x 6.25”
    A dodge ball, a surrogate satellite moon, revolving near Saturn’s rings in a duet with a distant
    actual moon of Saturn. (The horizontal line is the rings of Saturn seen on end.)

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Ringer, archival pigment print, 32” x 35.38”
    A dodge ball and ring Frisbee have been thrown to form a new dead ringer or fake Saturn in the Orion
    nebula.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Detail of Ringer, archival pigment print
    Close-up of the dodge ball and ring Frisbee fake Saturn in the Orion Nebula.

    Image credits are in About the Art > Image Credits
     

    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Life On Mars, archival pigment print, 15 7/8” x 44 7/8”
    A twisty balloon as a life form in a Martian landscape.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Rover, archival pigment print, 17 1/8” x 12 3/8”
    Rover, also the name of the robotic vehicle sent to Mars, is a
    twisty balloon animal coming in for a landing on Mars.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted.
    All rights reserved.

  • Apogee, archival pigment print, 15 3/8” x 16 1/4”
    A twisty balloon dog orbits absurdly high at peak altitude over Earth.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Acme, archival pigment print, 22 5/8” x 30”
    A party balloon deflates, or breathes out, rocketing into Earth’s orbit.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Lift, ©2018, archival pigment print, 37.4” x 28.5"
    A red super hero cape floats in orbit over a wishful Earth.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted.
    All rights reserved.

  • Eureka, archival pigment print, 12” x 14 5/8”
    A beanie, a proverbial thinking cap, surveys Earth.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Apogee III, archival pigment print, 21 5/8” x 22 1/2”
    A whiffle ball as a satellite moon of Earth and shocked emoji face witnessing climate change.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Wild Blue Yonder, archival pigment print, 12” x 16 3/8”
    A tiny toy plane f high above a hurricane.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • Toss, archival pigment print, 21 1/4” x 20 1/8”
    My father’s tossed hat spirals up and over a hurricane.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.

  • High Hopes, archival pigment print, 20” x 26 3/4”
    A pristine paper plane flies impossibly high above the Northwest USA.

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    All images and text ©Barbara Noah, except by other authors as noted. All rights reserved.