"Sometimes when you’re looking for one thing, you find something completely different and unexpected”.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Exhibiting Sandrow’s unexpected discovery that a Hen's egg posed upright while candled resembles stars, moons (in this photograph the harvest moon) and planets. The micro to the macro: during a year celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of space exploration, the first walk on the moon.
Candling enables observation of embryonic development inside the shell. Recent scientific studies prove bird embryo’s respond to events outside their shell: “Even Unhatched, Birds Exchange Survival Skills. Eggs vibrate in response to parental alarm calls, then pass on the warning to nearby eggs.... and in return receiving cues from nearby unhatched siblings.
A contemporary influence and inspiration for Sandrow’s work is Nancy Holt: an artist who’s work “provided a new lens for observing natural phenomena”. (Note 1)
view more artworks and read about this study....
Note 1: https://www.diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/nancy-holt-sun-tunnels
Friday, August 16, 2019
Portrait of a Chicken as an Egg (Candled) within A Golden Rectangle open air studio Shinnecock Hills spacetime 6:40pm Aug 16 2019
Unique Pigment Print on Cotton Rag (2019) Size variable to proportions of a Golden Rectangle
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