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2013 November – Sarah Nicholls

How to Fortell the Weather Using the Pocket Spectroscope, 2014. Letterpress and linoleum print on paper, trifold pamphlet, 10 ½ x 12 ½ in. (open), 10 ½ x 4 ¼ in. (closed). Edition of 30 + 10 AP
There was really very little rain in November of 2013, but what there was of it mainly fell on November 27th. Included is a description of how to read the rain bands using a pocket spectroscope, a widely popular weather forecasting trend in the 19th century, and the artist’s rendering of what the rain bands on November 27th, 2013 might have looked like through the spectoscope.

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