These two works contrast the universe’s sublime infinity against our own insignificant mortality and limited understanding. Our mortality is represented through the choice of organic materials, all remnants of our fellow creatures on earth. With In times past he described time passing I visualize Tycho Brahe’s incorrect 16th Century theory of planetary movement through the repetitive motion of embroidery with the product of silkworms. With Sky of the heavens, skin of the earth I build a celestial monument with the shells of sea organisms doomed to transience.