"Saturn, Interrupted" has been hanging on a wall in my kitchen for a number of years.  It's not the largest piece of art on display there.  In fact, it almost blends into the wall, rather like a fiber art wall-flower.  But, the impact this little work has on me is almost beyond words.

Today I shared with a friend via email just what this piece represents to me:  gazing into a limitless universe, beautiful beyond anything we can conceive in our own mind, where we can hear 'the music of the spheres' loud and clear.

I grew up star-gazing, partly because my father introduced me to its art and mostly because it took my eyes to a realm beyond my comprehension:  limitless, forever space and time and stars and planets and mysteries of incalculable types.  

This "three-part invention" [with a very strong nod to Bach] has brought the limitless Universe into my limited living space, carrying with it a lifetime of star-gazing memories and unlimited joy in the viewing. 

The images of Saturn that I manipulated were printed off of the Internet many years ago, from the NASA website, onto fabric.  Because the original photographs were taken through the Hubble space telescope with no participation by any other for-profit or non-profit entity, NASA has made these particular images available copyright-free.  Users simply need to acknowledge the source of the photos, and I am doing that here and now.  I am grateful that my tax dollars are at work in this fashion and totally for my enjoyment.