Every Month a Lunar Count


Every Month a Lunar Count (1991) is a text-image piece that runs live on a MacIntosh computer. Confronting directly my experiences with sexism, it is also inspired by the Venus of Laussel and writings about her. These writings state that the time factored marks on the crescent in her hand suggest that astronomical and mathematical reasoning may have originated in womens' recognition in themselves, of the link between celestial and biological rhythms. The subtext of my piece is that computers are not in conflict with women's nature, that they probably descend from women as well as from men.