JULIAN McKENNY


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Phases of the Moon



We seem to have had a lot of Super Moons in recent years.
Responding to the traditional names for the full moon I have made a series of assemblages combining painted and found elements which follow a similar structure of a cross with a found object acting as a pendulum. Many of the names are evocative and possibly unfamiliar but connect to the land and how our ancestors lived upon it.

In January the Wolf Moon, followed in February by the Snow Moon/Hunger Moon or Storm Moon. The Worm Moon of March gives way to April's Pink Moon (or Egg Moon to the Anglo-Saxons). In May the Flower Moon (or Milk Moon) precedes the fragrant Strawberry Moon of June. July heralds the Thunder Moon or Hay Moon and the ripening season of August has the Barley Moon/Grain Moon becoming the well known Harvest Moon of September at the Autumn Equinox. Equally familiar is the luminance of October's Hunter's Moon and as the days shorten and grow colder we get November's Frost Moon/Oak Moon or Mourning Moon.
December has The Long Nights Moon or Cold Moon.
Every third year we have a Blue Moon, not so rare after all - it is a thirteenth moon in the year. And once in nineteen years February has no full moon, hence the name Black Moon.



JULIAN McKENNY



PHOTOGRAPHY