We set up the new show at Winthrop Gallery this week. The official opening is this coming Saturday, June 4, and it will run through July 25. The title is “Obliquity: Our Tilt Towards the Sun”. The four of us wanted something general that we could work around, and because the summer solstice occurs on June 21 in the middle of our time period, we thought a “summer” theme would be good.
The seasons are caused by the angular offset or obliquity between the Earth’s axis of rotation and a perpendicular to the Earth’s orbital plane with the Sun. As a result, at different places in the Earth’s annual orbit, the northern hemisphere is tilted towards or away from the Sun to varying degrees. When the northern hemisphere is most tilted towards the Sun we have our summer solstice and the longest day of the year. So hopefully this explains the title!
Here are a few pictures I took at the gallery yesterday:
Twisp of Fate 
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