“The day with its cares and perplexities is ended and the night is now upon us” written in Network Writing System

screen print, 8½×8½”

Square screen print. A thin white border surrounds a dark blue field. In the center is a white sun-like shape, a star with so many points it’s nearly a circle. Surrounding this sun are many small white dots, arranged irregularly like the stars in the sky, and connected with white lines. Rather than forming separate constellations, almost all these stars are connected into one complex network, and in many places the lines cross each other. The overall composition feels asymmetrical yet balanced.

Words from Einstein on the Beach, Knee Play 5. The animated version below builds the print from the music:

Each circle represents a letter (or a space). In the image below, start reading from the T in yellow, directly above the sun shape, and proceed clockwise; each ray contains one character. The connections between the dots determine which characters they are: for example, the H in “the” is connected to the dot directly before it, and to the dot four before it; that combination always means H. (The connections to dots after it do not matter: those are used for determining later letters.)

You can read a full explanation of the system here.