Ancestry contemplates the interconnection and chemical/molecular exchanges between deep earth and deep space via folded and layered sculptures made from telescope data printed in soy inks and coloured with clay based pigments and cyanobacteria (in the form of spirulina) – the earliest microrganism found in the fossil record. The monumental forms are evocative of hydrothermal vents, where life is thought to have originated and stromatolites, ancient life forms comprising stony structures built by colonies of microscopic photosynthesising cyanobacteria. Meteoritic polymer of glycine and iron has been found in stromatolites – potential evidence of the  the delivery of elements to earth through meteoric collisions and the emergence of life.