Lorna Simpson has often used distortions, abstractions and enigmatic collaging to show the complexities of contemporary black and femme identities, and has been rightly celebrated for it. With this new body of work, perhaps reacting to the overarching anxieties of our times, she pivots to the celestial and environmental. Directly inspired by the 1929 book Minerals from Earth and Sky, she has created works which are elemental in their essence and drawing on a story from the book about a crashing meteorite, remind us of the possible peril that ever lurks with the natural.