The Solar System as a Flower

First photo of a star (Vega) other than the Sun. Daguerreotype, 1850.

Study for the translation from symbolic to abstract.

We do not know whether the Universe is finite or infinite. We may never know it.

Process for my 2017 eclipse painting. At that time, I was very focused on completing these pendulum paintings on astronomically significant dates.

Great American Eclipse… 2017 Seven years ago, I completed this painting during the previous eclipse on August 21st.

Messier 51 galaxy photographed at the Yerkes Observatory, June 3, 1902. One of the first photographic images of a distant galaxy.

Jean Delville, Seraphitus-Seraphita, 1932. Here Delville depicts the protagonist of Balzac’s novel Séraphita (1834), an androgynous being born to parents who’d mastered the doctrines of Swedenborg.

The cosmos within us

American Progress by John Gast (1872)