Sirius
(23” L x 13” H x 22.5” W)
The StarSentient™ glass sculpture, Sirius, embodies a brilliant and dynamic presence evoking an aquatic nature energetic. Named from the ancient Greek word for scorching or glowing, “serios,” it is crafted from layers of clear and shimmering blue, green and teal solid glass in curvilinear shapes. Sirius’ sparkling luminosity and brilliance as a star holds a profound, important history for many world cultures, but most particularly for the Dogon tribe of Mali, west Africa. They believe that their ancestral, spiritual teachers were amphibious, twinned, androgynous beings called the Nummo, who came to teach them from a planet in orbit around a dwarf star, Sirius B, which is un-viewable from the Earth unless using very strong magnification. This star is now known to be coupled to the massive Sirius A, making it a binary system (A circling B every 50 years). That this tribal people knew of the existence of this star, undiscovered by modern science until 1928, remains a marvel still to be scientifically explained unless one accepts their sacred story of the astral knowledge said to come from the Nummo. In the Dogon ethos, these are said to have come to the Earth in a spacecraft over 5,000 years ago. There are numerous other features of our own solar system that the Dogon know and attribute to the teachings of the Nummo. The importance of this star is found in many other historical cultures and in some cases, their legends have similarities to the Dogon’s mythology. In the night sky, we see only Sirius A and call it Sirius. The two stars are about 8.6 light years away, making them amongst the very closest of our celestial neighbors situated in the Canis Major constellation. It’s uplifting energy and combination of smooth surfaces, refract light to show both watery depths and vibrant movement. Through Sirius, a striking interpretation of stellar radiance with a clearly oceanic sentiment has arrived!
