MA Showcase

Encounters with the Cosmos

My current body of work entitled Encounters with the Cosmos investigates Interconnectedness and Entanglement through practice-based artistic research. The work spans painting, sculpture, drawing, writing and immersive video, inviting participants to have an encounter with the cosmos.

Through the work, I am combining aspects of Astrophysics, Geometry, Natural History, Philosophy, and Cosmology, using an embodied practice of making-with stardust elements from the Scientific Periodic Table of Elements.

Not only am I making artworks about the story of stardust, but I am also using meditation, channeling, meditative journeying and making-with Elemental Materials (Stardust) to investigate whether it is possible to replicate a state of connectedness when making with, or making about stardust. The research has enabled me to readily connect with universal truths and wisdoms that are accessed sometimes during meditation, and other times during the art-making.

---

Have an Encounter with the Cosmos:

This video serves as a guided meditative journeying experience, offering the audience an encounter with the cosmos. By experiencing this journey, audiences will be better equipped to access and understand the underlying concepts of my practice-based artistic research and artwork. (Note to examiners: this is an entirely new video created for unit 1.3).

---