This sculpture combines the delicate, shell-like casing of a female cephalopod with a meteorite that traversed the galaxy inscribed into the aperture of the shell. In the words of the artist, “I’d been thinking about things from the depth of the sea and then the depth of space—this in-between space between borders and between national territories,” he explains. “Collapsing those two dimensions together into these strange hybrid or synthesized objects was already a lens through which I was thinking about space.” The work meditates on vast scales of distance and duration, linking the immeasurable depths of the ocean to the expanses of the cosmos. Questions of geological time, human systems of measurement, and the ways civilizations map the stars all converge within the sculpture’s improbable union of the organic shell and the extraterrestrial stone.