The above models depict the light of the heavens cast onto the Earth's surface. A map originating from the Cambridge Star Atlas 2000 was abstracted into constellations and magnitudes to reduce the vast quantities of information.

Most maps of the heavens are constructed using spherical projections making it difficult to read the relationships between objects as everything appears distorted. The task was to construct a Mercator type map with a Cartesian order.

The new map expresses the observable universe in extremely simple terms. One can clearly distinguish the Milky Way, the Earth's Ecliptic and the North Pole - South Pole of our galaxy located within the system.

The Earth is envisioned as a "Dent de Lion" (when one blows on the Dent de Lion the seeds scatter ensuring the future of the plant). The light cast onto the Earth is broken into zones defining the relationships within the universal context. As solar winds blow the Earth apart, fragments containing the code and origin of our planet are scattered throughout space. The hope is that someday the code may regenerate life.

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