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. Now, 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 art 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. My art shows the elegance and complexity of science and its laws; and in so doing, it works to build a bridge between science and humanity – illustrating what science really is and how we use it. Through my explorations of light, image, time, and space, viewers will feel suddenly like they 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.