the-cosmic-wheel-sphere-of-myth-and-mystery

The wheel and the sphere share a geometry: both circular, both symbols of cycle and return, both figures for something in continuous motion. This piece brings them together in the cosmic register — the sphere as a wheel that the cosmos turns on, the mystery of why it keeps going and what it's revolving around. Both the mythological and the physical readings of that question are present in the image without one overpowering the other. The composition earns the grandeur of its subject.