My ideas of space oscillate between science and myth, Astronomy and Astrology. What would it mean if I blended the two concepts into one object? To
find out, I used the size and weight of twelve sheets of steel as a scientific approximation of compressing the infinite vacuum of space into a sixteenth of
an inch. I drew the constellations and star charts onto the steel by welding, drilling and grinding. Then I suspended the night sky from a grid structure.
By blending of the symbols of “real” space and “represented” space I came up with something that seems truer, like an avatar of space. I use this
avatar to explore our relationship with the Universe and the meaning we find in its complex system of remote stars.
