Birth of an Idea

16 x 14.6 in / 40.64 x 37 cm each
archival inkjet print on Niyodo kozo paper

Statement

It took centuries of cumulative discoveries and inventions for science to understand how the sun works.

Born out of that knowledge, a simple curiosity emerged: can we manufacture our own sun? That curiosity was answered at Los Alamos.

Eventually science discovered it takes 20-40 nanoseconds for the nuclear fusion reaction in a hydrogen bomb to become a sun.

On average a neuron in our brain fires around 0.16 times per seconds.

Was the idea to harness Nature conceived at a fraction of a second? Was this very idea – which led to terrifying consequences – made by electrical charges of neurons?

Did hundreds of years of discovering Nature’s secrets accumulated and harnessed in split seconds?