Astronauts orbiting the Earth have been to known to experience what’s been called “The Overview Effect”—a cognitive shift toward hyper-awareness of the fragility and beauty of our planet. E.V. Day’s MossBall - A Meditation on the Overview Effect is from a larger body of work commenced during the year she spent in Italy as a Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Arts at The American Academy in Rome. Artworks in the series mine resonances between the neuropsychology of space travelers, Italian-Renaissance annunciation paintings, the sculpted golden rays (raggio) from Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s masterpiece The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, and the radio-wave telemetry of Sputnik-1.