Created in the same year when American astronauts successfully landed on the Moon, and a year after the release of Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001 Space Odyssey, this print seems to ask the questions that space explorers might have. How was the universe created? Is there life out there? 

The work also reflects ideas from David Bowie’s 1969 song “Space Oddity," from the album David Bowie.  The song tells the story of Major Tom, who launches successfully from Earth.  At a point during his travels ('past one hundred thousand miles'), he claims that he “feels very still" and thinks that "my spaceship knows which way to go." He continues to say, "Tell my wife I love her very much." Ground Control then informs him, "Ground Control to Major Tom: your circuit's dead, there's something wrong" and attempts to reestablish contact.  Major Tom's final words in the song are: "Here am I floating 'round my tin can, far above the Moon. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do."

The Friends of Art at K-State (today the Friends of the Beach Museum of Art) sponsored regional biennial exhibitions.  Many of the featured artists, including Navrat, were K-State graduates and/or taught at universities in the Midwest.