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‘The Second Moon’ (above) is a piece in which Paterson brought together the cosmological and
the conceptual, the scientific and the poetic, the massive and the minute. She encourages her spectators to push their
imaginations to their outermost reaches, to contemplate the mysteries of their place in the universe. She is the artist
who transmitted Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to the lunar surface and back; installed a live phone line from a gallery
to thegroaning depths of an Icelandic glacier; mapped the locations of the 27,000 dead stars that are known to
humanity (and continues to send a letter of condolence each time another one dies); took a grain of sand and got
nanotechnological experts to carve it to just 0.00005mm across before casting it loose in the deserts of the Sahara.
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I see her work as inspiring, and wholly relevant to my practice.
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