Mother of Dragon's perihelion passage occurred on 21 April 2024, when on a cold spring dusk, skipping supper, we watched for an hour. Above the Cloud Peak Wilderness her orbital period will bring her back in seventy-one years. Through the constellation Taurus, her apparent path is transcribed by hand from a stargazer phone app. Mother of Dragons, formed with ice, dust, rock, and diatomic carbon molecules, emits visible green light in solar llumination. This comet births meteor showers, baby dragons. Life-carrier celestial, Mother of Dragons literally spawns carbonized life. To map this cryovolcanic comet through clouds of animate debris...
- Collections: Drawings Portfolio 2024