Discuss “Tales of the Infinite Absolute”

You are holding two small metallic eggs, one in each hand. One is in your left, one is in your right. They are curious objects, as you are unable to determine whether they occurred naturally or were created by mankind. To you, they feel powerful. Now you place them to rest, one at the top of the Taygetos Mountains, the other you let slide from your fingers into the sea.

While this may sound like a fantasy-imbued dream, it is the culmination of 30 years of work by Carnegie Mellon art professor Lowry Burgess. As the sixth piece of Burgess’s Quiet Axis project, Seeds of the Infinite Absolute seeks to display and try to understand the power of infinities.

Over the past 30 years, Burgess has planned and then collected the elements that compose...