The End of A Binary Star System
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Hämeenkyrö, — 61.5628694, 23.0927799
Over two months observing silence and darkness in the sub-arctic boreal forests of Norway and Finland, fractals emerged—
How I learned that time slows
on the approach to planet—
& when a large star has burnt
up all of its combustible
substance, it goes out
How in the beginning,
there was only chaos..
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‘The End of A Binary Star System’
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was a poetry installation series created during a thematic residency at Arteles Creative Centre (Silence Awareness Existence, January 2026)
beginnings &
endings
&
the boundaries
between physical
& im/
material loss
examining
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in the beginning there was only chaos
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Poems
Witnessing:
a violent collision | ice giant | orbiting star | defying relativity | as all that mattered accreted onto infalling plasma | light escaped collapsing core | reaching distant observers
Re-membering:
‘a poet, writer, wife & mom’
‘a nurse with great heart, took his dog everywhere’
‘what unites us’ as we face a brave new world.
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What remains, but
fragments;
myth,
story—
woven
into a
tapestry
of
reckoning
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Poetry installations
Conditions of the Womb
Figment of the Harvest
Lesson One (Of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics)
The End of a Binary Star System
Pastel Poetica: Universal Elements
Pastel haikus
