lucie mccormick / looking up / march 2025


my first glimpse of the wilderness in the sky was at age five. My family was camping during a windstorm in the Badlands of South Dakota and woke to our tent caving in. As we crawled out to secure our things, we looked up and realized there was a meteor shower overhead.

the coinciding of the storm on the ground and the flashes in the atmosphere made it feel as though the events were entangled. In the years that followed I would look up hoping to see stars crossing the sky.

seventeen years later, I witnessed a total solar eclipse and again felt this wildness emerge. It strikes me how being present for a cosmic event creates a snapshot in space and time. If you aren’t in the right location at the moment of alignment you miss it, and it can’t be revisited.

in this show I want to share some of the moments I have captured over the years, and create a link back to earth, seeing the onlookers and environment.

looking up reminds me that even as patterns may appear in our lives we never truly repeat ourselves, and looking to the sky we can see this truth reflected back to us.

– lucie