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Constellations, as we know them, were born out of the human

eye’s need to arrange space into knowable shapes. The astronomer

Carl Sagan famously said, “If constellations had been named in the 20th

century, I suppose we would see bicycles.” The way we reinvent our

contemporary living spaces is up to us. Our imagination has the power

of harnessing stars, building a finite system out of infinite chaos of the

universe: so is this self-contained environment engineered to encompass

several others, revolving around one another like satellites of a complex

planetary system. Imagine a living room laid out as the dotted spine

of the Milky Way, and an intimate bathroom, coppery and mercurial like

a small secret planet: what else could exist in the space in between, what

wonderful new landscapes? What spatial conversations happen among

objects, as they discuss gravity and the many, diverse relationships that

a body can have with another?

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