Jennifer Wood
"Canopy of Space"
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| (Photos by Patrick Fraser) |
“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day, but when I follow the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth; I ascend to Zeus himself to feast me on ambrosia, the food of the gods.”
- Ptolemy (90-168 AD)
“From our home on the Earth, we look out into the distances and strive to imagine the sort of world into which we are born. . . . But with increasing distance our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly, until at the last dim horizon we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and it will not be suppressed.”
- Edwin Hubble (1989-1953)
“In the beginning…God created the Heavens and the Earth.” How does one actually understand this reality of the heavens, this canopy that is our home? Our home is this universe that we are (seemingly) only beginning to know. Scientific research succeeds in extending that knowledge to ever farther reaches of the universe responding to this urge which is older than history. This universe is our home as much as the earth we walk on each day.
This umbrella canopy represents space, universe, heavens, creation and Creator; the source of light, gravity, matter, dark matter, and our mysterious encounter with all of it each and every day we walk on the earth and marvel at the stars above.
Materials: paper, wood, wire, gold leaf, glass beads, graphite