Shooting Stars—Mark Smith

To lie on the grass and look into that black vast thing called space — what do you see?… was the driver behind my part in the exhibition “Shooting Stars”, shown in St Kevins Arcade late 2022 with painter Marissa Healy.

 Super Novas, the Moon, Stars all became a consuming excuse to look for anything that looked liked it could be from the Solar System, true or false.

 The steady eye of the crow and the cameras candid eye see as honestly as they know how, but they lie. W. H Auden, from Hold Still — by Sally Mann