We view the universe as an oscillation between the profound and the mundane. Our everyday lives are narrow in comparison to the infinite nature of all physical reality. When we examine the cosmos, we are forced not only to confront its vastness, but also to place ourselves within it. It is hard to grasp that we are just as much a part of everything as any other aspect of the natural world. We are not an “other” looking at the universe, we are the universe.

The overview affect is a well-documented phenomenon, a moment of realization when everything becomes connected and fragile due to the perspective of earth from the vantage point of space. A moment that forces people to look within instead of out into the extrinsic abyss. They can see clearly that there are no real borders, there is no magical line between sky and space, and that everything is connected. Many astronauts have come back to earth profoundly transformed by this experience.

The NASA archives are a glimpse into that phenomenon, and through the appropriation and transformation of the images I get to play with the sheer enormity and absurdity of the universe. Each image utilizes the platinum and palladium process, a very special and antiquated way of making images. The materials used in this process can only be produced through the collision of two massive neutron stars. Their existence here on earth is a testament to the interconnected nature of all things. When I print these images made of star dust, and I hold them, and I view them, I can’t help but feel the weight of it all… the undulation of all things and myself.