Page 70 - Winter Issue

Merge I, II, III, IV, V
Indian Ink on Watercolor paper,
21x29.7cm, 2022

Touching upon the deaths of stars that already passed away
thousands or millions of years prior, 'Merge' focuses on the
collisions between neutron stars. Spiraling in on each other,
eventually colliding neutron stars cause another immense
transient astronomical event called a 'Kilonova' (also known as
a macronova). 'Merge' offers the viewer an impossible front-
row seat viewpoint into one of these titanic collisions.
During this event, more heavy elements are fused and ejected
into the cosmos. It is theorized that most heavy elements have
originated from collisions between neutron stars. so it is
possible that not only did a star have to die in a supernova to
create the elements that would one day create our planet and
ourselves. It is also possible that the corpse of that star had to
collide with another corpse to create some of the elements
within ourselves and our civilization.

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