Event Horizon
Embroidery by Steve Medwin
Born from the rotation of a single fluid curve, Event Horizon echoes both the geometry of spacetime and the mystery of Creation itself. Streams of color orbit a dark center, drawn inward as if by the invisible gravity of a black hole — the edge where light can no longer escape and the known gives way to the infinite.
In Judaic reflection, this center may be seen as the Ein Sof — the Infinite beyond form — from which all existence flows. The swirling threads embody both motion and return, mirroring Tzimtzum, the divine contraction that made space for the universe to emerge. Light and darkness, creation and collapse, coexist at this threshold where boundaries dissolve and renewal begins.
Each filament becomes both photon and prayer — a trace of radiance crossing into mystery — reminding us that the same forces that bend light across the cosmos also shape the hidden architecture of spirit and creation.
Artist’s Reflection
Although I don’t come from a background in Kabbalah, I’ve learned that its teachings describe how the Infinite — the Ein Sof — gives rise to the world we know. In that tradition, creation begins when the Infinite withdraws, forming a space where light can emerge and flow into being.
Event Horizon became a visual echo of that idea. The colors spiral toward a dark center like streams of energy returning to their source, a reminder that creation and collapse are part of the same cycle. What science calls a black hole, Kabbalah might call the hidden Infinite — both representing the boundary between the known and the unknowable, where light bends, vanishes, and is transformed.
