Hi, my name is Isabel van de Stadt and I am a visual artist and graphic designer based in Deventer and Arnhem, working across visual communication, photography, and light sculpture. Through a hands-on process, I explore ways of seeing, analog image-making, and light as a material. I am particularly interested in image-capturing and image-displaying technologies, and how their evolution shapes the way we see and experience our surroundings.

I am open to commissions and collaborations across graphic design, photography, and visual art. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

isabelvdstadt@gmail.com
@isabelvandestadt

Cosmic Vertigo
Book, 2024

This book features two datasets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, paired with poems from ‘Life on Mars’, a poetry collection from Tracy K. Smith –winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2012)– whose father worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. 

Black pages and white pages alternate throughout the book. The white pages contain a dataset of the 5859 exoplanets discovered to date (2024). The black pages contain a dataset of false positive probabilities from the Kepler space telescope. I added these black pages with false positives to hint at the limits of knowledge and perception; while we expect there to be billions of planetary systems, we can only observe a fraction of what exists in outer space.

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