STUDIO SHEET 002 · REV. C · TWO-COLOR · CONTINUOUS TONE + SEPARATIONS STARDUST GRAVITY · SCREEN PRINTING JUNE 2026

Retroactive
2026 The five two-color studies, held as continuous tone — no halftone — with each plate broken into its two component screens, ready to re-screen.

Same sources, same fragments, same compositions and the same two inks as the first study — the dot screen lifted off so the photographs read as continuous tone. The halftone goes back on later in the process.

Under each finished study sit its two separated plates at full resolution: one screen carries the photographic image, the other the flat color field and its off-register ghost. Printed back over one another, they rebuild the study above.

Plates
05
Inks
2 per plate
Format
4 : 5 · 1200×1500
Screen
Continuous tone
Retroactive (Severance) — continuous tone
01

Retroactive
(Severance)

Warm black + oxblood · continuous tone

The closest homage. The lead figure stands crisp on bare canvas while the color field sits beside, not over, him — Kennedy's pose, Mark's stare. The moon presides; the roadside grounds the base.

Screens
  • Severance — Apple TV (figure, group)
  • Far side of the Moon — Lunar Orbiter V
  • Gemini VII rendezvous
  • AutoZone & McDonald's, roadside
Component layers · 2 screens1200 × 1500 px · full registration
Screen 1
Plate 01 — warm black key
Warm blackKey · photographic screens
#1A1410
+ Screen 2
Plate 01 — oxblood spot
OxbloodSpot · field + off-register ghost
#B23218
= Overprint
Plate 01 — overprint result
Two-color studyScreens 1 + 2, multiply
as shown above
Outside the Window — continuous tone
02

Outside the
Window

Cool black + cobalt · continuous tone

The literal view out the windshield holds the lower frame in crisp black; above the rooftops the cast broadcasts into a cobalt sky like a drive-in screen, a capsule and an earth adrift beside the arches.

Screens
  • AutoZone & McDonald's, roadside
  • Severance — Apple TV (group)
  • Gemini VII · Earthrise, Apollo 8
Component layers · 2 screens1200 × 1500 px · full registration
Screen 1
Plate 02 — cool black key
Cool blackKey · photographic screens
#16181E
+ Screen 2
Plate 02 — cobalt spot
CobaltSpot · sky field + off-register ghost
#2B57A8
= Overprint
Plate 02 — overprint result
Two-color studyScreens 1 + 2, multiply
as shown above
Channel / Far Side — continuous tone
03

Channel /
Far Side

Cool black + turquoise · continuous tone

The image admitting it is an image. The far-side scan becomes a turquoise CRT; the poster row reads as channel-surfing; the figure stands as one more channel on the dial.

Screens
  • Far side of the Moon — Lunar Orbiter V
  • Severance — Apple TV (figure, content row)
  • Gemini VII · Earthrise, Apollo 8
Component layers · 2 screens1200 × 1500 px · full registration
Screen 1
Plate 03 — cool black key
Cool blackKey · photographic screens
#15140F
+ Screen 2
Plate 03 — turquoise spot
TurquoiseSpot · CRT field + off-register ghost
#1F9A92
= Overprint
Plate 03 — overprint result
Two-color studyScreens 1 + 2, multiply
as shown above
Labor — continuous tone
04

Labor

Cool black + chartreuse · continuous tone

Two kinds of worker. Schmitt at the split boulder fills the frame under a hard sky; the launch arc rises through the chartreuse field; the office worker stands small at the corner, doing the other kind of work.

Screens
  • Schmitt & the split boulder — Apollo 17
  • Titan launch arc, 1967
  • Severance — Apple TV (figure)
  • AutoZone, roadside
Component layers · 2 screens1200 × 1500 px · full registration
Screen 1
Plate 04 — cool black key
Cool blackKey · photographic screens
#0E1014
+ Screen 2
Plate 04 — chartreuse spot
ChartreuseSpot · field + off-register ghost
#A8B017
= Overprint
Plate 04 — overprint result
Two-color studyScreens 1 + 2, multiply
as shown above
Transit — continuous tone
05

Transit

Cobalt + oxblood (red & blue) · continuous tone

The busiest plate, after Retroactive II. A launch arc slices the diagonal; capsules rendezvous at center; the cast gathers in the red field below; an earth and the arches anchor the corners. Everything in motion.

Screens
  • Titan launch arc, 1967
  • Gemini VII rendezvous · Earthrise
  • Severance — Apple TV (group)
  • McDonald's, roadside
Component layers · 2 screens1200 × 1500 px · full registration
Screen 1
Plate 05 — cobalt blue
Cobalt blueStructure · launch, capsule, figures
#244C97
+ Screen 2
Plate 05 — oxblood red
Oxblood redLower field · warm tone + ghost
#B23218
= Overprint
Plate 05 — overprint result
Two-color studyScreens 1 + 2, multiply
as shown above