Universal laws of natural environments are conditions and rules that govern how every system in the known universe behaves and interacts with every other system. These laws also incorporate the idea of "scale invariance". As a system or event gets larger in scale, if every part of the event scales with it, it should behave in the same way. So, you can use experiments with small objects (such as colliding electrons or atoms together) to learn and understand larger things within our universe (such as stars, supernovas, and black holes).

In my work, I use this sense of scale invariance visually, using the micro to represent the macro. Specifically, this work uses 3D-printed “records” inspired by zoetropes and phenakistoscopes to represent planets in rotation around stars. I used liquid light shows, which use the interaction of water and oils to create psychedelic movements, to emulate the swirling, interacting nature of galactic bodies over billions of years. The song I created for this work makes reference to the speed of the records’ rotation, 45 rpm, by being 135 bpm (45*3). The song also incorporates audio recordings from NASA’s Voyager mission, started in 1977, including a recording of the Golden Record (the contents of which were chosen by a committee headed by Carl Sagan) placed on the spacecraft. The record, and its cover, was NASA's attempt to distill our planet and its history down into a little more than 90 minutes of audio and 115 images, so that other space-faring civilizations could decode it and potentially make contact.