Rosy Keyser on Sound, Collaboration, and “Arp 273”

On the walls of Rosy Keyser's Brooklyn studio are photos from a zine documenting the subject of her current show at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery in LA. The show's title Arp 273 refers to a pair of interacting galaxies—one fell through the other 300 light-years away. The idea behind how forms fall into and through one another, affecting their positions and holding them in a relationship through dynamic is based on the research of astronomer Halton Arp who, in his 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, described how this event happened and the pair’s uncanny resemblance to a rose and its stem.