ABSTRACT
The image from NASA’s new Webb telescope above shows a protostar, 1 a new star in the process of being formed. The red and blue hourglass of gasses shown centered around a black thin space (the protostar) are being pulled into the star in its formation. These gasses and matter are heated and compressed to form the material of the star through nuclear fusion eventually. The context of the many conditions around this new star is essential to its being formed, much like a human individual connecting and pulling in experience from a larger public context to form one’s own identity and self. This incredible image helps us to understand the intention for the title of the section and is a useful metaphor for the connections we can make between the works presented here (Figure 18.1).
