Artist Statement: “Star Gazers”

I find the thought of forever incapacitating.  Then I think of the alternative; of being nothing ever again.  We all have a self proclaimed importance that renders our being obsolete, impossible.  This is part of what makes us human.  We hold the idea of our importance despite our insignificance and mortality.  I wish I could believe that something was out there waiting for me in the cosmos.  

I long for a time, somewhere in the past, when it was thought that all information was just out of reach and all we had to do was find it.  I feel that in present time, the more information we know, the more we realize that we’ll never know it all. We now have a vastly expanding wealth of information at our fingertips, yet we are no closer to “knowing” the most important answers.

The most wonderful idea I can think of, the thing that truly comforts me, is the possibility of time being warped beyond our current perception.  I find comfort in the idea of parallel universes; where little holes allow for one world to briefly experience the next.  When you make a decision in one world, an alternate decision would be made in the next, and so on.  This idea has always allowed me to think that when I am gone in one world, I may continue in the next.

“Star Gazers” addresses the things that are hard to think about (i.e. death, mortality, insignificance) through imagination and narrative easy to be confronted with.  Fiction and awe weave together antique imagery, scientific imaging, and medium format film photography to tell a farfetched tale that is factually possible.   This is a story where worlds can communicate, where past and present can connect, and the cosmos contain meaning.