Wan Hu: Samples of Work in Progress 2009
HD video, Thermal graphic video of a sparkler turned into a star field.
As Legend States around the year 1500 Wan Hu, a minor Chinese official of the Ming dynasty, attempted to take advantage of China's advanced rocket and fireworks technology to launch himself into outer space and travel to the stars. He attached forty-seven large black-powder rockets along with a pair of kites to a wooden chair and dressed in his finest attire. On the day of lift-off, Wan climbed into his rocket chair and forty-seven servants lit the fuses and then hastily ran for cover. There was a gigantic explosion. When the smoke cleared, Wan and the chair were never to be found again.