Anna Newell - The Pale Blue Dot

Artist: Anna Newell, MontanaMaterials: sterling silver, fine silver, star sapphire Size: 8Dimensions: ring face 1.8" x 1.8" x 0.19", band is tapered from 0.42" to 0.63" Artist Statement: Inspired by Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech and the Golden Record. Star Sapphire representing earth, the pale blue dot, at the center of a spinning pulsar map — the very complicated binary map depicting the 14 known pulsars (spinning neutron stars, hence the spinning action) sent aboard both Voyager probes in the Golden Record. A map to our sun, a map to us. The Golden Record is comprised of information about earth - maps, photos of humans/animals/landscapes, music, the sound of rain and crickets, whale greetings (with the thought that they may make more sense to aliens than to humans), a page from a book, anatomical diagrams, art, the sound of a kiss... It’s really the most profoundly romantic thing I can think of. In short - it’s a guide to human life should aliens ever intercept Voyager. Wildly mo