Gazing skywards, imaginative conceptions find their focus of attention; here emerges a space of revealing configurations and constellations, observed, theorised, communicated. The space of tropospheric clouds in a thermodynamic journey, where the Sun rhythmically bears rays of light; here comes forth the Moon, the planets and stars, entangling choreographies of cosmic interplays. Clouds gather and disperse, knowledge transpires. With these modes of cosmic observation comes an Earth-based connection, a human experience.

Cosmic Filaments is a site-specific installation comprising three iridescent cloud modules that hang from the ceiling of Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art: a single polyhedron-shaped module out of which grow two larger clusters of three and five modules that together span the distance of the Museum’s lobby. Suspended in a network of ropes that replicate the tensile strength, flexibility, and absorbing visual intricacies of a spider web, the sculpture evokes interstellar configurations, microscopic cellular systems, and biospheres in which humans might one day exist.