This proposed exhibition is both a tribute and an exploration—an interactive painting of the night sky as it appeared at the time and place of my mother’s birth.

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Quiver enters into dialogue with Anish Kapoor’s black concave forms and incorporates interactive optical effects reminiscent of Olafur Eliasson’s installations. The work will take the form of a 12-foot-diameter faceted concave disk suspended from the ceiling—a polyptych composed of 30 to 40 irregular triangular canvases.

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Each canvas will feature laser-cut perforations aligned with the positions of stars in the night sky on the date of my mother’s birth. The diameter of each perforation corresponds to the star's magnitude, allowing brighter stars to cast wider points of light. Unlike Alberto Biasi’s Optical-Dynamic Reliefs, which use printed patterns on solid backings, this surface will be oil on canvas, with light passing through layers of hand-painted impasto and cut fabric.

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The structure’s geometry is based not on a uniform grid like a Fibonacci lattice, but on a convex hull defined by the brightest stars—forming triangular segments that echo the shapes of constellations. As viewers move through the space, points of light will flicker in and out of view, activated by their shifting perspective. At one specific vantage point, the entire dome of stars will align and illuminate, revealing the full sky in a quite moment.