photography with multiple image overlays using adobe lightroom & photoshop. No AI but if used it will be annotated as such with the specific image.
The Universe is incomprehensibly vast — a silence so old it has outlasted every question ever asked of it. Are we alone in this dark, or is life scattered throughout or perhaps just figures moving through someone else's matrix? Philosophers, theologians and scientists have circled these questions for as long as we've had the words to ask them, and none have caught more than a shadow of an answer.
This series, was born on a shoreline of grey Jurassic boulders at Llantwit Major, South Wales — I sat there for hours, waiting for the photograph that wouldn't arrive. The light slid sideways, the tide pulled back and returned, people came and went and still the boulders said nothing — until, quietly, my own 'big bang' arrived. What if these countless, indifferent stones were planets? What if each planet, in turn, were only an atom itself cradled inside another, on and on, past any scale the mind can hold?
I photographed the boulders with that thought and they became worlds. Later chapters of this Universe series surfaced as I photographed the three-hundred-million-year-old pink granite of Perros-Guirec in Brittany — circling the same idea that we are small, briefly here, and folded into something immeasurably larger. The cosmos may feel eternal. Our own fragile, blue planet is not, perhaps that is the quietest truth these stones have to offer.
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UNIVERSE 02 Perros-Guirec, Brittany, France, the three million year old pink rocks hold a sense of vastness and intimacy at once, where geology becomes astronomy, and the small is seen to echo the infinite.
UNIVERSE 03. The third piece in the series. The Universe a silence so old it has outlasted every question ever asked of it. Are we alone in this dark, or is life scattered through it like seed on wind? Here, I explore that vastness and mystery at once — where geology becomes astronomy, and the small is seen to echo the infinite.
Contemplating the Universe, one is reminded of Earth's fragile balance. Protecting this delicate harmony requires urgent action to preserve the only home we know.
Contemplating the Universe, one is reminded of Earth's fragile balance. Protecting this delicate harmony requires urgent action to preserve the only home we know.
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UNIVERSE COLLECTION Short promotional video for the collection
SPACE JUNK Following the Universe images, I turned the same eye on space itself for this this piece built from shattered car windscreen glass and mechanical fragments found on tarmac, the shards of glass catching light like distant stars.
Space junk endangers both future exploration and Earth's own atmosphere: burning satellites release aluminum oxide, a byproduct known to erode the ozone layer and shift the planet's albedo. Left unaddressed, the debris will only accumulate — a quiet reminder that even our reach into space leaves a footprint at home.
(Sources: Space.com, Scientific American, European Space Agency)
Space junk endangers both future exploration and Earth's own atmosphere: burning satellites release aluminum oxide, a byproduct known to erode the ozone layer and shift the planet's albedo. Left unaddressed, the debris will only accumulate — a quiet reminder that even our reach into space leaves a footprint at home.
(Sources: Space.com, Scientific American, European Space Agency)
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