When we got together we discussed each others' styles and that quickly led into how she could focus on the landscape and that I could focus on the sky...our respective specialties. This was the beginning of an organic process and an instant friendship. Both of us looked eagerly at each others' representations. Shuvinai chose to draw with a permanent fine tip marker. I chose the photocopier to enlarge or reduce the hundreds of image sheets I had brought from my research archives. She worked from memory and experience while I re-presented aspects of media based star images in black and white and color. We were never out of each others' field of vision. Shuvinai worked intently at her landscape which continued to flow out of her for 3 days. She had reached the middle of the paper and she was obviously done when she quietly started working on another panel. Then I began to arrange the stars and other variously coded colored images based on the Universe. Shuvinai noted that some of the star images, originally drawn by the 15th Century German astronomer Peter Apian, resembled snowflakes and she suggested that they could be wrapped around her stone outcroppings and loosely assembled on specific areas of her landscape. She had remarkably produced 5 horizons. Next we negotiated placing celestial matter through all of the sections of her skies. The work was predominately graphic (black and white) and we decided that color would be desirable. The original drawing was 11 inches wide and 16 feet long. It was really only viewable from a platform ladder. As we continued to work we both recognized that we were simply artists with diverse geographic and cultural origins collaborating to accomplish a common goal...John Noestheden 2008.
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