Stardust. (Started in 2013. In progress.) We live our lives without giving much thought to our origin or make up. Occasionally we see photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope, but those images are almost always viewed in a visual vacuum. Rarely do we contextualize our own existence within these images. This series of double exposures is a reminder that the cosmos is inside of us, that the heavy elements that make life possible were forged deep within the furnaces of stars, and that our eventual fate is still linked with these scenes of nebulae and star clusters. Each photograph is a scene from Earth overlaid with a shot taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

All of the Earth landscapes are made up of the same constituent elements shown in the Hubble shots - Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen - but arranged in such a way that gives us trees, water, and air. This visualization allows us to literally see the existential connection. We can't quite tell where the sky ends and the nebula cloud starts.

30 Doradus.

Magellanic Cloud.

Carina Nebula.