Astrophysicist and Science Communicator Carl Sagan said,
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
In his 1980 series Cosmos, Sagan took his viewers on a journey through what was then known of the universe, macro to micro, connecting them in exquisite and compelling narrative, seeding the minds of millions of people to what is deemed “The Cosmic Perspective”.
This impression directly links humans to time and space,
placing everything we are, known and have done,
in the blink of an eye,
in an insignificant galaxy,
within a cluster of hundreds of billions of stars.
While checking the ego, it is also meant to re-establish and celebrate that sense of self within the grace of a system to be studied and harmonized with.
This show takes off from that notion, imagining the development of consciousness, linking it to the movements of the material world. Neuroscience, astronomy, cosmology, and geology, elicit the imagery, which inform the work.
From wind formed sand dunes on the surface of Mars and mapping of dark matter,
to the stratification of terrestrial rock and web-like structure of neurons and synapses, the pieces around you carry the spirit of connectivity to those systems.
My hope is that they will evoke a sense of the familiar while sitting directly in the alien, inviting you to straddle those, at times, uncomfortable spaces of perception.
We live in extraordinary times. Art and science can help us to imagine and discover tomorrow.
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
In his 1980 series Cosmos, Sagan took his viewers on a journey through what was then known of the universe, macro to micro, connecting them in exquisite and compelling narrative, seeding the minds of millions of people to what is deemed “The Cosmic Perspective”.
This impression directly links humans to time and space,
placing everything we are, known and have done,
in the blink of an eye,
in an insignificant galaxy,
within a cluster of hundreds of billions of stars.
While checking the ego, it is also meant to re-establish and celebrate that sense of self within the grace of a system to be studied and harmonized with.
This show takes off from that notion, imagining the development of consciousness, linking it to the movements of the material world. Neuroscience, astronomy, cosmology, and geology, elicit the imagery, which inform the work.
From wind formed sand dunes on the surface of Mars and mapping of dark matter,
to the stratification of terrestrial rock and web-like structure of neurons and synapses, the pieces around you carry the spirit of connectivity to those systems.
My hope is that they will evoke a sense of the familiar while sitting directly in the alien, inviting you to straddle those, at times, uncomfortable spaces of perception.
We live in extraordinary times. Art and science can help us to imagine and discover tomorrow.
The Copernican Imagination, 13" x 13" x 1 1/2", Ceramic
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