The Micro Grow series is an abstract play on light and diatom engineering. Diatoms are one-cell organisms living in all forms of water. Their exquisite silica tests or glass lace houses phytoplankton. Diatoms photosynthesize over 25% of Earth’s oxygen and like us have celestial lineage. They fuse together forming beautiful colonies or networks for mutual sustainability. We need to get the memo. Silica occurring as the mineral quartz, is one of the most common substances on Earth. A study from 2018 using observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reported that silica is formed when massive stars explode. In ceramic science, silica is in my glazes and clay particulates. Coming from the most abundant elements in Earth’s crust, clay was also forged in nuclear furnaces inside stars. The elasticity and memory of clay lies within the microscopic hexagonal particulates giving it strength and plasticity. Its adaptive, regenerative ability is its stellar power. It came from the stars, after all. Many of the chemicals that compose our planet and our bodies were formed directly by stars. We are all, quite literally, made of stardust. Carl Sagan, Starman David Bowie, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young knew we are star dust... By definition, star dust is a magical or charismatic quality or feeling. Star Dust grew from imaginings enchanted with the tides’ gravitational pull by the moon in this ancient celestial dance. The alchemy and adaptive nature of clay offers infinite possibilities in form and as an illuminating model for mutual sustainability at this climacteric time of change. We and all life on our beautiful planet, like clay, are from star dust. Everything is connected.