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STAR GAZER
‘Star Gazer’ is a personal work - part of a series of anthropomorphized celestial bodies, and the most recent of the three pieces in the series.
When you are gazing up at the stars in wonder, remember that you are also wonderful and worthy of awe.
The idea in this series was to depict each celestial body exhibiting emotions I typically associate with them, and hosting a sort of animal guide. For the star, I wanted to express a sense of curiosity, wishing, and wonder. Naturally, his animal guide is a cricket, reminiscent of Jiminy from Pinocchio. This painting asks: what if a star was looking up at the night sky, amazed by the vastness and beauty of it all, perhaps in realization that he is also a part of the intricate mechanical workings of the universe? What if he was wishing on things composed of the substance of which he also is made? If we are made of the same stuff as well, perhaps we have all the necessary parts to make our own wishes and dreams come true.