Size: 93" by 56"
In a private collection.

There were two inspirations for this quilt. The first was a Hubble telescope photograph of two galaxies colliding, which provided the compositional structure. The second was the "Metamorphosis" woodcuts by M. C. Escher, where a repeated shape at one side of the work gradually changes into something entirely different, as your eye moves across the page. The equilateral triangles at the edges of this quilt have curvier and curvier edges until they pinch off into small triangles at the centers of the galaxies/cells. The third was the work of my son, Carlo Maley, on the evolution of cells. The piece is quilted both by hand and by machine, and is embellished with beads.