Pattie Lee Becker | Joanne Seogweon Lee | Agustina Flores Maini | Erin Rigney
“The infinity in the microscopic is as dazzling as that of the cosmos. However, the infinity that haunts everyone and which no one can finally quell is the infinity of one’s own interiority.”
For more than thirty-five years, the Hubble Space Telescope has orbited the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour, transmitting images that are at once breathtaking, mysterious, and surreal. These images have expanded our understanding of the universe and led to extraordinary scientific discoveries. Yet, as O’Donohue reminds us, we do not need to travel to distant galaxies to encounter vastness. “The eternal is not elsewhere; it is not distant. There is nothing as near as the eternal.”
This exhibition explores that nearness. It invites viewers to consider that immensity exists not only in deep space, but also within the intimate and unseen. The participating artists explore realms and landscapes invisible to the naked eye, suggesting that the inner and outer worlds — the visible and invisible — are not separate, but intertwined.
In the works of Pattie Lee Becker and Agustina Flores Maini, the micro and the macro appear interchangeable, forms oscillate between cellular structures and cosmic systems, blurring distinctions between what is minute and what is monumental. Additionally, music appears as a medium in Agustina’s work as a spiritual exploration of the multitude of self. Joanne Seogweon Lee turns to the elemental act of coiling and pinching clay, reaching back through time to connect with her ancestors in the creation of a traditional Korean moon jar — a gesture that bridges personal history and collective memory. Erin Rigney traverses an interior landscape that feels as expansive and luminous as a Hubble image, evoking a cosmos that resides within.
Together, these works suggest that the mysteries we seek in the farthest reaches of space may also be encountered in the depths of matter, memory, and self. The exhibition proposes that the infinite is not only above us, but within us.