Valerie Keane’s works on paper are constructed with devotion, resulting in miniature worlds that reflect the viewer back unto herself. These are “flat” images in comparison to Keane’s other work, and yet a close look into the frame reveals parts that appear as though they could move, or are moving, as light rolls across beautiful strips of metalized film and tiny hand-cut strands of metal bend themselves toward the rice paper base. Resistant to photographic capture, endlessly demanding of the eye, each piece requires attention to details that differ by the minute. Imagine the medieval astrolabe, the spherical navigational device described in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe, alongside the tiny zipper-like ladders and beautifully subdivided spheres of Keane’s translucent sculptures framed in aluminum: she compresses time, light, and space on the Gaylord’s fourteenth floor.