Cosmogony 2.4: The Cosmic Egg

This installation was inspired by the natural history specimens housed in the Richter Museum at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, which includes one of the largest bird egg collections in North America. *Cosmogony 2.*4 conceives the cosmos as a woman’s domestic space, complete with a celestial globe floor lamp and a modern Manus Dei  (the hand of god emerging from a cloud device, as seen in medieval art.) The wheeled sewing trolley might recall Apollo’s chariot that drove the sun across the sky. It is an incubator for a host of potential cosmic eggs, ranging from the natural (extending from sparrow to ostrich) to products of today’s mass culture. The eggs are nestled amongst paper shreds replicating Carl Richter’s collecting notebooks. One of his notebook pages is presented as an embroidery, along with two others depicting the cosmic egg and the Chinese story of the universe emerging from an egg.