HOMESPUN UNIVERSE:

The Wondrous Work of Anabella Gaposchk

Anabella Gaposchk was a little known nineteenth century astronomer whose fascination with the cosmos evolved into an intense desire to re-create the visions she witnessed in the night sky. Through primal photographic methods enacted in her kitchen, she stumbled upon a most unusual method to map out the subtlety of the heavens. Pages from her diary detail her extraordinary approach:

August 17,1885—an open star cluster I observed in Sagittarius last night has sprung to life: two and a half tablespoons of baking soda, in free fall, captured on impact from a height of 37 inches.

Through her attentive observations of the cosmos and keen understanding of gravitational forces Gaposchk discovered a delicately intuitive and scientifically sound methodology of astronomical illustration.  She gathered the proper domestic ingredients, took a leap of faith and in this way charted a new course for astral discovery.  Her discovery of the much disputed Bikini Nebulae catapulted her life’s work. Looking back on her life she wrote:

What caused me to undertake this catalogue was the nebulae I discovered in the late spring of 1883 above Omega Canis Major. It held quite the striking resemblance to women’s undergarments.

Contemporary thinkers recognize that she intuited not only the existence of a symmetrical or parallel universe hypothesized in recent String Theories, but also, the actual invention of the Bikini.