"Reflections Of Stardust"
An Oil on Canvas '1992'
"Reflections Of Stardust"
An Oil on Canvas '1992'
"REFLECTIONS OF STARDUST" is a gaze into the mirror of the universal soul. The exchange of birth and death throughout the cosmos as a twofold reflection, that binds terrestrial life, plants, stars, all the galaxies and the macrocosums together.
The origin and evolution of life are connected with the origin of the stars. The atoms that make life possible are generated in the red giant stars, The ovens in which matter is forged. Elements returned the the interstellar gases, are swept up in an ensuing three stage generation, of cloud collapse, star formation and planet formation.
A red giant star, more massive that our sun, reaches the climax of its life cycle. A supernova powered by silicon fusion, violently ejects its stellar mass into space, sucking in all supernal bodies in its trajectory.
New stars form when a shock wave slams in to a molecular cloud. This causes gas and dust at the cloud's edge to compress. They heat up and finally ignite. Within a few million years blue-white clusters of young stars form. Older stars the mature to cool to pinpoint of light.
The planetary genesis begins when, a galaxy's clouds of dust and gases gravitate together compressing into a protester formation. This is a prelude to our yellow sun's inception. Cloud matter forms into a circular orbit around the protester, forming a pre-planet disk. These dust particles collide and adhere together. They grow from pebbles to rocks to boulders and larger, until the protostar condenses, suddenly emitting a blast and starts to burn because the hydrogen gases in the matter, leaving a swarm of planetary fragments. The fragments crash together, combining to form whole planets. on one planet the rock releases gases and water vapors. The gravity is strong enough to hold these atmospheres to the surface. As the planet cools the gases condense and liquids are put into the planetary atmospheric cycle.
The evolution of a star like our yellow sun continues to emit helium compounds as it burns the hydrogen fuel. When enough fuel is consumed the star will expand into a red giant, grotesque swollen version of itself. In it's death throws, the sun will expand to engulf most of the surrounding planets. Eventually spewing its radioactive gases into space. In one or more concentric shell of gases the remains become part of the planetary nebula. As it cools a white dwarf star is left circumfused by rings of the planetary gases and debris. This matter will eventually be recycled into the cosmic soup.
Down the seasoned stretches of geologic time the thread of life has passed from generation to generation, ever modifying but unbroken, in in the stands of nucleotide DNA. The evolution of life requires a more or less precise balance between mutation and selection.
I now have prints of this painting "Reflections Of Stardust" in Giclee format available for purchase. Each Print comes with a printed copy of it's "Legend". Print Size: 13 inches by 17 inches. Priced at $60.00 plus $19.95 for Fedex shipping, art carton, insurance and handeling. Item #101992. Page 5. "Rainbow" will sign the print any way you want it. Just include the name of the print, the item number, the date of purchase and a note of how you want it signed in an Email.
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