Celestial Rocks is a love song.  While it holds the everyday-now, it also poetically attempts to acknowledge all that connects us. 


As I collect my street bounty, listening to the bird calls and other urban sounds, there is time to reflect on articles read and heard. The title and the artwork like most of my practice references a multiplicity of directions. Celestial Rocks, as Ziggy Stardust does, include stellar news :
"We are a way for the universe to know itself. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff,"  Carl Sagan, astronomer and a science advocate​, famously stated in an episode of his American TV show, Cosmos in the 1980s..  Meaning that "carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our bodies, as well as atoms of all other heavy elements, were created in previous generations of stars over 4.5 billion years ago" ! Humans and most matter on Earth contain these elements. And a supernova being that massive light radiating star which has died in a violent explosion after exhausting its supply of nitrogen throws out a large cloud of dust and gas into space. . where "astronomers have discovered supernova remnants containing traces of heavy elements like gold, silver and platinum throughout the nearby universe, as well as ancient galaxies from the dawn of time that contain nothing but the lightest elements". It's beautiful, powerful, violent and and yet nourishing and our genesis - this is sourced from Are We Really Made of Stars?  live science.      

I cut and pasted this quote of CS as a great reminder for myself and as the language is simply humble:
"Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to critical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet."   Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996

and remembering with love another good man but an Aussie scientist, Robert Earnest Winkworth 1927 - 2003

Included in Celestial Rocks is a large double God's eye weaving made from various finds eg a lovely vintage green broom and bedsheets that nods to the history of the Nurses Walk and links to my other works referencing healing sites with sacred Clootie wells and Wishing Trees.
Also I am currently listening to all that I can by Friar Richard Rohr, a Franciscan Priest/ Christian Mystic and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque balancing out other listening inputs on neuroscience and my rocknroll tendencies.