{"id":23227,"date":"2016-09-23T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=23227"},"modified":"2016-09-22T18:03:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T23:03:18","slug":"apsu-student-mary-sencabaugh-creates-mural-honoring-2017-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/23\/apsu-student-mary-sencabaugh-creates-mural-honoring-2017-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU student Mary Sencabaugh creates mural honoring 2017 eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – On the afternoon of August 21st, 2017, the skies over Clarksville will go dark for approximately two minutes as a total solar eclipse blacks out the sun.<\/p>\n

A once-in-a-lifetime event, the eclipse figures to draw hundreds of amateur and professional stargazers to town for the brief opportunity to witness history.<\/p>\n

\"APSU<\/a>

APSU student Mary Sencabaugh’s Eclipse Mural.<\/p><\/div>\n

But while the eclipse itself may be fleeting, one wall in the Sundquist Science Building on the campus of Austin Peay State University is host to a work of art that serves as a reminder of how fortunate the University is to be located directly in the path of the natural phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Austin Peay art and physics double major Mary Sencabaugh was asked to create a mural commemorating the eclipse. A student of both the explained (physics) and the unexplained (art), Sencabaugh was the perfect choice to create a tribute for the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, both physics and art are about trying to explain or understand the things around you,\u201d Sencabaugh said. \u201cI\u2019m always trying to base my art projects around physics because it\u2019s something I\u2019m always thinking or learning about anyway, so (the mural) was a great project for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Created using oil paints, the mural is not meant to replicate what on-lookers can expect to see on August 21st, 2017, but rather to invoke a sense of awe in the beauty of space. The mural\u2019s use of color and shape is abstract, but Sencabaugh said her goal was to encompass many of the unique sights that can be spotted through a telescope.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to try to get a number of different important features of space in the mural itself,\u201d Sencabaugh said. \u201cFor instance, there\u2019s the Einstein\u2019s Cross in one corner, which is a real example of light bending around a heavy object so that it makes it look like two identical objects to our eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The entire structure of the mural itself, Sencabaugh said, is a subtle tribute to one of her artistic inspirations \u2013 late television host and painter, Bob Ross.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a big Bob Ross fan, and one of his favorite things to do was to paint \u2018fluffy little clouds\u2019 in his works,\u201d Sencabaugh said. \u201cUltimately, space itself is like a series of fluffy clouds, so that\u2019s the way I went about creating the nebula in the mural.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The mural) was fun because it\u2019s a chance to combine physics and astronomy, which have the burden of accuracy, with art, which has no burden of accuracy and gives you the freedom to do what you want.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on the Austin Peay\u2019s schedule of events for the 2017 Total American Eclipse, visitwww.apsu.edu\/eclipse. To find out more about Sencabaugh\u2019s work, visit www.marysencabaugh.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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