#cosmic perspective
Happy New Year! Hopefully, you’ve been enjoying your local climate, flora, and fauna whenever you can. I hope you’ve also been participating in #FieldNotesFriday, but if you haven’t, consider this entry a little nudge of encouragement. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to take myself and my son out on a trail at least once a week. I started things off right by visiting one of my favorite trails…
My latest tattoo: “The Cosmic Perspective” by the insanely talented Balazs Bercsenyi
This piece serves as a humbling reminder of our connection to the Universe at the largest and smallest scales.
The cosmic perspective not only embodies our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself. Symbolized by the elements of earth, air, fire and water, the design illustrates our interconnectedness to the processes of our planet. In the bottom center, a stylized carbon stone represents the key elemental component of all known life on Earth. Emerging from there, a symbol for humanity gaining consciousness and pondering its connection to cosmos, gazing at the galactic and stellar processes in which we came from.
I hope this design serves as a daily reminder to embrace the unknown, to stay curious, to stay humble, to remain open-minded and ultimately cherish our brief moment in the Sun.
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Paintng A Galaxy Within - Oil, 24 x 18 inches. I’ve slowed down the timelapse in a few places so you can see some of the marks go down, and see that they don’t always go down the way I want them to on the first try.
This has been available on my Patreon for a while but I’m releasing it to the wild and adding a new video there: Painting the Face of Inertia.https://www.patreon.com/robrey
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A Galaxy WithinWe are each a little galaxy of our own. It’s a mind-bending exercise trying to comprehend the 100 billion stars found in a typical galaxy. Yet, each of us has roughly the same number of neurons in our own brain, performing a symphony of consciousness. Similar too, is the number of atoms that write out our DNA code. We are a staggeringly complex and unique collection of natural components, come together for a short, precious moment.
Large numbers are difficult to fathom, but to be disappointed in the realization that we are “just” collections of atoms moving in accordance with the laws of physics, is to misunderstand the depth of this astonishing complexity, and the billions of years it took to evolve.
“We are the miracle, we human beings. Not a break-the-laws-of-physics kind of miracle; a miracle in that it is wondrous and amazing how such complex, aware, creative, caring creatures could have arisen in perfect accordance with those laws [of nature] … Our emergence has brought meaning and mattering into the world … It bequeaths to us the responsibility and opportunity to make life into what we would have it be.”
-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture
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