Karla Knight's exhibition "Orbit" at Andrew Edlin Gallery presents her game-like paintings and tapestries filled with cryptic symbols, cosmic diagrams, and celestial imagery. Works such as "Orbiter 2" (2024–25) and "Feelers" (2025–26) feature irregular black devices, floating spheres, and rows of arcane script, inviting viewers to decode what appear to be blueprints for extraterrestrial systems or maps of hidden dimensions. Knight employs meticulous grids, bold primary colors, and textile techniques to render the paranormal as strangely normal.
The exhibition matters because Knight's work engages with the long tradition of speculative cosmology and cipher-making, suggesting that even deliberately invented symbols can point toward meaningful understandings of the universe. By blending craft, painting, and esoteric imagery, she challenges the boundary between empirical science and creative intuition. "Orbit" offers a timely meditation on how visual art can model alternative realities and expand our perception beyond conventional spatiotemporal limits.