moon series ongoing
Inspired by Japanese printmaker Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s iconic woodblock series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (1885–1892), Dittmar captures moons collected from her global journeys, each treated with meticulous pen strokes that metaphorically depict the moon’s continual rhythmic emergence and disappearance—its breathing. In the series, each moon is inscribed with fine, repetitive lines, suggesting both reverence and erosion. These drawings do not merely depict celestial bodies — they embody the breathing rhythm of the moon’s perpetual cycle of appearance and disappearance, grounded in earthly ink and hand-drawn time. (text by Ece Pazarbaşı)