Self

My work explores the experiential power of art as a science communication: how can art make the public feel the stories of science beyond pure explanation? Emerging from the academic fields of philosophy and astronomy, I am obsessed with exploring the contrast of inner and outer space. These fields caught me in a world of simultaneous harmony and paradox – a gravitational well of antinomies. Through experimentation with texture and juxtaposition, my films surrender to this dualism to disintegrate the contradictions that emerge when we attempt to explain our universe.

I am fascinated by the incongruous feeling of otherness we experience in the natural world – particularly, anything beyond our atmosphere. My method resolves that sense by contextualizing humanity in the universe. We live in and with this cosmos – not only at the grace of its rhythms, but also thanks to the fundamental physical processes that we share with it. The universe does not hide these shared characteristics; they are right there to be seen, if only we take a moment to look. By showing the elegance and complexity of science and its laws, my work builds a bridge between science and humanity – illustrating what science really is and how we use it. Through this method, I guide the audience to feel connected with the universe: we belong on Earth, orbiting around our Sun, swirling amongst billions of stars in the Milky Way. The otherness dissolves, and we realize that parts were always derived from a greater whole.