“The work under examination, Alnitak, one of the stars of Orion’s Belt, embodies a stellar deity with distinctly contemporary features.

Within their rusted and oxidized encrustations, the figure’s ceremonial garments and headdress appear to have rested for millennia, evoking the shimmering Eastern figures of Late Antique, Byzantine-inspired mosaics.

The goddess is a queen of space, a silent guardian of ancient secrets from lost worlds.”