Russell Crotty makes ink drawings of nighttime skies
based upon his own astronomical observations. Merg-
ing two and three dimensions, he draws on globes of
various sizes, inverting our notions of planet and sky.
We become boundless observers of a contained uni-
verse.

Crotty also makes 2-dimensional drawings and large-
scale books. Sometimes the works include anecdotal
text and notations from his field expeditions, exhaus-
tively descriptive and intentionally verging on bad
poetry and self-parody.