Night Architecture, 2020

Lithograph, 88/200 Black and White lines and stars Image Size:  14 x 11" Paper Size:  20 x 16"   (reprinted from The Print Club of New York) In Night Architecture, threadlike lines connect scattered points of light on an opaque black ground. Built on the concept of the warp and weft, the vertical and horizontal axes used in weaving, Night Architecture unites Victoria Burge’s previous explorations of celestial cartographies with her recent research into the repeated patterns, mathematical sequences, and coded notations used in textile design. Burge’s interest in textile design grew from an apprenticeship at The Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia in 2017 and a 2019 fellowship at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT. With this edition, Burge brings structure to the seemingly random beauty of astronomical maps by applying the visual principles of traditional weaving techniques. The preliminary drawing for Night Architecture is based on a page of the Atlas Eclipticalis (1958),