Sandrow’s unexpected discovery (August 2017) that an egg set on by Gold Lace Hen Rupam posed upright while candled resembles the celestial bodies; the stars; the moon, (in this photograph the Harvest Moon), and planets — a clear exhibition of the micro to the macro. This was exemplified during a year celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of space exploration and the first walk on the moon. These were also the subjects of study (Untitled Observations spacetime) at the time, when, by Chance, Sandrow’s path crossed with the white Padovana cockerel in the wooded Shinnecock Hills in 2006.

The penetrating light of “candling” reveals the condition of an egg’s air cell, yolk, and albumen, enabling observation of embryonic development inside the shell. Recent scientific studies prove that a bird’s embryo responds to events outside their shell: “Even Unhatched, Birds Exchange Survival Skills. Eggs vibrate in response to parental alarm calls, then pass on the warning to nearby eggs.... and in return receiving cues from nearby unhatched siblings.” (Note 1)

A contemporary influence and inspiration for Sandrow’s work is artist Nancy Holt, including Holes of Light, and, Locators. Her “major themes were vision, memory, perception, time and space. Using the natural environment as both medium and subject, Holt endeavored to make her audience conscious of the cyclical time of the universe, the daily axial rotation of the Earth, and its annual orbit around the sun." (Note 2)