According to Meilberg from his Bandcamp page, he was asked to write music for the opening of an art gallery show of the water-color painter Charles Burchfield. He used the painting “The Sphinx and the Milky Way” to inspire this track.
Only the messenger
When [?] life
And the flames hit the gallery
I see an opening ahead
In the lull of the infinite
Scaled down to the visible
All surfaces rippling
Like the leaves in a sudden wind
Jonathan Meiburg released The Moth and the Milky Way on Wed Apr 20 2011.