Details
The image
A moon reduced to a disc, its surface suggested by a few textured marks rather than described crater by crater, the sky left as a flat field of colour. The composition is centred and quiet and the scale is deliberately ambiguous. It could be a graphic of a moon or a portrait of one.
Where it comes from
Images of the moon sit between illustration and diagram: nineteenth-century astronomy plates drew it with the precision of a map, while popular prints simplified it to a disc with a face. Contemporary graphic work borrowed both habits and the result is a picture that is technical and romantic at the same time.
On the wall
It suits a study, a bedroom or a hallway, where a single circular form gives a wall a centre without adding clutter. Because the composition is quiet and dark, it needs a wall that is not too dark itself. In a group it works as the element that holds the axis.
In company
Pairs well with photography and with plain furniture and it sits naturally among the modern prints in the collection. Two circular images on one wall compete directly, so give it a rectangular neighbour instead.
