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"Even at their emptiest, Celmins' images are composed with astonishing rigor. The world posited by her art is a realm of order, which her latest works have further clarified. The name "Strata" points up the artificiality in the artifice of transferring the visible onto a single plane . . . Space is to be charted."
-Carter Ratcliff, 1983

For Strata, Celmins mezzotinted 25 small copper plates, which were then mounted onto a single aluminum plate and printed as one. This process created the desired grid of a star chart