Sci-Art
Science and art can often meet on equal terms.
My sci-art work isn't science illustration, nor is it art solely inspired by science. It's intended to be a fusion where scientific ideas, artistic expression, and an expression of who I am at that moment in time are all essential to the work.
Gallery
View My Sci-Art Collection
Browse my visual work exploring themes from physics, astronomy, and language. You'll find sample glyphs of a constructed pictographic language for readers under the night sky or those in deep space, you'll also find photos of light caustics of a 3D print of the cosmic web.
Art on the Moon
Lunar Art Project
I collected and curated private, human-made visual artwork with a strongly celestial touch, mostly in 2020-2023, and arranged for it to travel to the Moon as part of a long-duration cultural archive.
The archive flew on Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission aboard the Odysseus lander, the first commercial spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon. Odysseus touched down on February 22nd, 2024 near the Malapert A crater, around 300 km from the lunar South pole. It came to rest tipped at roughly a 30-degree angle, and its payloads remained intact.
My pieces were written to a durable nanofiche medium and carried as part of "lunagrams" by Galactic Legacy Labs, i.e. archives by Stamper Tech. The discs face the Sun - likely for a very long time.
About the IM-1 mission · About NanoFiche and Stamper Tech · About Lunaprise
Curious about how the collection was curated? Message me on Telegram.
3D-Printed Cosmic Web
The universe, made physical
I 3D-printed a model of the cosmic web, the vast filamentary structure along which galaxies cluster, and photographed the light caustics it casts. It is an attempt to hold a little of the universe's architecture in the hand.
Approach
Thought Process
I don't approach science as a subject to be illustrated, and I don't see art as a wrapper for scientific ideas. I'd rather like science to shape my ideas, and then taste shapes my artistic expression and the viewer's experience. My goal is to explore the thousands of hidden alleys and to spark new questions.
Conceptual Depth
Each piece engages with real scientific questions, not as decoration, but as structure and direction.
Follow Along
Every now and then, I share sci-art updates and thoughts on Mastodon.
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