"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world."                                         Plutarch, Table Talk, Moralia 120 AD

A Hen lays an Egg after light-sensitive cells behind her eyes message her ovary to release an ovum into the egg yolk. Fertilized by sperm, coated by albumen, encased in shell as the egg travels through the oviduct. This  creative process encompasses twenty-four hours; as the rotation of Earth on its axis.                                                      Hope Sandrow spacetime

(Sky)gaze refers to the ancient practice of seeking information about one’s environment through observing the sky. Included are scheduled screenings of Sandrow’s video (right)  Untitled Observations in the series spacetime: images of the moon projected through a telescope on to her body...referencing the practice of Galileo sketching the surface of the moon on paper.

Also lectures with guided telescope viewings of the sun, moon, and celestial bodies offered in collaboration with the Montauk Observatory, Suffolk County Community College, and Dark Skies Society under the direction of astronomers Sean Tvelia and Dr. Mike Inglis, and Dark Sky Society founder and advocate Susan Harder.

Schedule for (Sky)gaze:

Screening of Untitled Observations

Lichtenstein Theater

Sunday, November 4, 2PM – 4PM

Monday through Thursday, November 5 – 8, 3PM-4PM

Friday, November 9, 11AM –12PM

Saturday, November 10, 11AM – 12PM

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 3PM – 4PM through December 31.

Lecture and Guided telescope *viewing

Southwest Terrace

Sunday, November 4, 3:30PM – 6PM

Monday through Thursday, November 5-8, 3:30PM – 6PM

Friday, November 9, 4 – 8PM

Friday, November 16, 4 – 8PM

Friday, December 7, 4 – 8PM     Sean Tvelia: Lunar Mythology

Friday, December 21, 4 - 8PM  Dr.Mike Inglis: A Journey to the Edge of the Universe

Friday, January 4, 4 – 8PM  Sean Tvelia: Astronomical Archetypes and the Origins of  Mythology

Friday, January 18, 4 – 8PM  Matthew Papas: Inevitable Discovery: The Scientific Search for                Life Beyond Earth

(*weather permitting)