The famous physicist Carl Sagan once said: ‘We’re made of star-stuff’.
What he means by this is that everything we can see and all the atoms in our bodies originate from dead stars or supernovas. A supernova is an exploding or exploded star. They are among the most violent events in the universe.
Our bodies consist of nitrogen (3%), hydrogen (10%), carbon (18%) and oxygen (65%). Most of what exists in our bodies was created inside stars that have long since died. The stars symbolise our origins. But also a contemporary obsession with wet capitalist sci-fi dreams in which the highest aspiration of multi-billionaires is to be the first to make it to the furthest reaches of the universe. And they do this with their phallus-like space rockets (see: Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin).
We live in a world where everyone wants to be stars and get gold stars in the form of ‘likes’. My star is held up by an oblong, phallic metal structure. It penetrates the glass while the Earth orbits the sun at 108,000 kilometres per hour like a fidget spinner. Our constantly circulating movement toward continued absurdities.
