Sara VanDerBeek’s Marble Moon juxtaposes two photographs: a recent detail of light falling on marble architecture in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood and an image of a solar eclipse tied to the artist’s past. Together, the pictures become a study of light and dark, and rectangular and circular forms. They also represent a series of symbolic contrasts: earthly stone alongside the mysterious moon; a familiar material alongside a rarely seen and distant occurrence; an enduring substance alongside a fleeting phenomenon. The source of the eclipse image was the artist’s family archive. During VanDerBeek’s childhood in Relay, Maryland, her family observed a total eclipse by projecting it onto a neutral surface through a hole in a piece of cardboard. (This rudimentary pinhole camera protected their eyes from the harmful effects of looking directly into the sun.) The family then used a conventional still camera to photograph the projected image. Years later, while visiting her family home, VanDerBeek discovered the decades-old picture and re-photographed it. The moon image contains layers of meaning for the artist, who is especially interested in connections between the operations of photography and memory. Through technical processes, cameras capture unique moments in time, foregrounding some details and obscuring, even “eclipsing,” others. Likewise, memory grasps at emotions and experiences, filtering and altering the past along the way.