We Are Starstuff is a synthesis of an X-ray of the artist’s head and a NASA image of stars and nebulae. Collapsing two discrete images into a single plane, the work makes visible our physical interconnection with the cosmos: even the calcium in our bones was forged in the interiors of collapsing stars.

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” Carl Sagan.

The body is not separate from the cosmos, but continuous with it. Matter that once burned within a star now exists as part of a human being - able to look back towards where it came from, to observe itself, and to experience the universe in another form of being.