Paper Cut

Made of Stardust

The fact that we are quite literally made of stardust has fascinated me since I learned about it. The elements that make us up are, at least partially, old things that have traversed the universe. That prime law of matter, that it can never be created or destroyed but only transformed, is at work here. The cosmic dust from stars long gone stays within our bodies, tying us to the universe at large. At the start of this project, I knew I wanted to incorporate something involving space, and I eventually settled on a rather colorful abstraction, of sorts, of a spiral galaxy. I paired it with a quote that had stayed in my mind since my initial ideas for this project. “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” While it can be a bit open to interpretation, even in its original setting, I find that it always reminds me of the stardust inside each of us.