Two Possibilities

Two Possibilities

"Two Possibilities" (a diptych) - acrylic on cradled wood canvas, 16 x 8 x .75.  Ready to hang.  Available here and at Artfinder.

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke

I grew up on science fiction.  

My copy of Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles​ was threadbare before I graduated high school.  Heinlein, Van Vogt, Asimov...worlds imagined and yet seemingly possible. Science fiction tackled all the big questions without hesitation, made me think, allowed a broad view of what could be. 

The older I become, the more those big questions rattle around in my noggin, and sometimes spill into the paint.

The wild thing about these questions is that likely none of them will be answered in my lifetime.  In this world of fast-paced technological growth, invention and speed, answers to the big stuff still remain (pardon the pun) light-years away.  And so we can seek knowledge without answers, practice  the ability to question and query and conjecture and ponder and sit with the wondrousness of it all.  

Which is something I do while painting.  

If you want to stuff your noggin with some fascinating knowledge, check out Kurzgesagt -in a nutshell on YouTube.  Because I don't want to be the only one contemplating what happens if the moon falls into the earth. :)

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​About the art: beginning with two panels and some black gesso, creating shapes with a rubber wedge.  Adding in colors to the shapes, following the thread wherever it meanders and then discovering a forest of sorts emerging in a celestial world.  This piece is finished with a layer of cold wax.