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Available Monday morning on @everydayorig
Song of the Universe Detailed Study, 8 x 6 inches
One voice sings, “Nothing matters.” We are insignificant specks on a speck in a vast uncaring cosmos. When our sun burns out, billions of years from now, it may be entirely inconsequential what happened on our home speck. A melancholy chord, but it also makes problems feel small and helps us to reevaluate how we spend our time. A reminder to live more in the present moment, rather than always fretting the future.
The other voice incants, “Everything matters!” We are here, now, wrapped in the real experience of our joy and suffering, enmeshed in a web of relations with all life on earth. Everything that we do has consequences that will be experienced by our fellow beings. There is profound purpose to be pursued in the improvement of life for ourselves and others. A melody of unity and goodwill.
Different though they seem, each voice tempers the other and blends in a bittersweet, harmonized hymn: a song of Cosmic Perspective.
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Cosmic Awareness
8 x 6 inches, Detailed study
Available tomorrow on @everydayorig
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself”
-Carl Sagan
We are part of this universe, not simply within it. We are products of nearly 14 billion years of evolution from an incredibly hot and dense beginning. First, simple atoms of hydrogen and helium had to form as space expanded and cooled. Before a planet could evolve life, these simple atoms had to form stars that would fuse heavier elements. These stars had to burn out in violent explosions that would seed new solar systems like ours with the elements necessary for life. After more than 9 billion years of cosmic evolution, our planet formed and began to evolve life. In this little corner at least, we are the first pieces of the universe with the ability to look out at the night sky and understand it. We are the universe coming to know itself.
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Fathom - from 2016
Oil, 20 x 24 inches
The vast depth of space and the multitude of stars, worlds, and galaxies is nearly impossible for our minds to fathom, but it’s an awakening experience to attempt. Traveling at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to cross just our one galaxy.
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Some detail images of Overview
Oil, 24 x 24 inches
The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space.
The Earth is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, hanging in the void, shielded by a paper-thin atmosphere. National boundaries vanish, and the conflicts that divide people become less important, encouraging a sense of unity with all of humanity and life on Earth. The need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect this planet becomes both obvious and imperative.
“When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile … Anybody else who’s ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it’s really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space.”
-Ron Garan, Astronaut
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My online solo show with @abendgallery opened last Wednesday afternoon. It seems many people were somewhat distracted at the time, so I’m announcing it again!
This is “Vantage” and “Overview” painted to scale with each other. To accurately represent the average distance between the Earth and Moon, the two paintings would need to be hung about 45 feet apart.
The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space.
The Earth is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, hanging in the void, shielded by a paper-thin atmosphere. From space, national boundaries vanish, and the conflicts that divide people become less important, encouraging a sense of unity with all of humanity and life on Earth. The need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect this planet becomes both obvious and imperative.
“When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile … Anybody else who’s ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it’s really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space.”
-Ron Garan, Astronaut
#overvieweffect #moon #palebluedot #bluemarble #overview #cosmicperspective #spaceart #scienceart #earth #oilpainting #painting #cosmos #humanist #humanism #boldbrush
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My Online Solo Show with @abendgallery is now live!
Overview, Oil, 24 x 24 inches
The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space.
The Earth is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, hanging in the void, shielded by a paper-thin atmosphere. From space, national boundaries vanish, and the conflicts that divide people become less important, encouraging a sense of unity with all of humanity and life on Earth. The need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect this planet becomes both obvious and imperative.
“When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile … Anybody else who’s ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it’s really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space.” -Ron Garan, Astronaut
#overvieweffect #overview #earth #earthart #cosmicperspective #oilpainting #painting #spaceart #scienceart #cosmos #humanist #humanism #galleryshow #bluemarble #palebluedot #fineart
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Pleased to see my painting, Nullius In Verba, is a finalist in the Art Renewal Center Salon!
Oil, 24 x 18 in
Latin for “on the word of no one” or “take nobody’s word for it”, Nullius in verba is the motto of the oldest national scientific institution, the Royal Society. The society was founded in 1660 and presided over by Sir Isaac Newton from 1703-27. The motto is explained thus:
It is an expression of the determination of Fellows to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment.
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A few detail shots of Oasis so you can see the strokes.
“From that distance, my thumb fit over the entire Earth. I realized how insignificant we all are if everything I’d ever known is behind my thumb … When you see Earth from the moon, you realize how fragile it is and just how limited the resources are. We’re all astronauts on this spaceship Earth and we have to work and live together.”
- Astronaut Jim Lovell
“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena… In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand… the only home we’ve ever known.”
- Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot
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Oasis
Oil, 24 x 18 inches
A new painting from a study I posted earlier this year, now available on IX!
“From that distance, my thumb fit over the entire Earth. I realized how insignificant we all are if everything I’d ever known is behind my thumb … When you see Earth from the moon, you realize how fragile it is and just how limited the resources are. We’re all astronauts on this spaceship Earth and we have to work and live together.”
- Astronaut Jim Lovell
“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena… In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand… the only home we’ve ever known.”
- Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot
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