Stella Ignition

As the climate crisis accelerates, the need to transition away from fossil fuels is no longer a matter of debate, but of survival. Can renewables such as wind and solar alone carry the burden in time? Or must we also reckon with more contentious technologies—nuclear fission, and the still-distant promise of fusion? 

From the wheel to the atom, from coal fires to the dream of nuclear fusion, we have become creatures wielding godlike technologies, while still grappling with fear, greed, and shortsightedness - an era of breathtaking possibility and existential peril.

Stella Ignition is a photographic project exploring the paradox of technological progress: innovations that could usher in a new golden age, could just as easily destroy us. These works seek to reframe energy innovation — especially the pursuit of nuclear technologies — not only as a technical challenge, but as a moral and symbolic crossroads.

The field of nuclear energy could become a possible solution to accompany a renewable transition, all while providing clean (and in the case of fusion - near limitless) energy. But it could also exacerbate existing inequalities, escalate warfare, or entrench systems of control if left to unchecked forces of power and profit. Technology itself is neither salvation nor damnation. It is a tool. Its meaning depends on the choices we make.

As we ignite the power of stars on Earth, the true revolution may not lie in what we build, but in what we choose to become — for conquest, or for connection; whether we chase endless growth, or progress measured by wisdom, balance, and shared wonder.

This body of work explores these concept by gathering fragments across time—new perspectives, historical truths, and personal accounts—entwined with imagined futures. 

Through this weaving, the work questions the notion of linear progress, inviting viewers to sense time not as a straight path but as a field of resonances—where past, present and future echo through one another. Events, decisions, and discoveries not as isolated points but as part of a greater entangled system, where meaning emerges through relationship, reflection, and response.