A MOBIUS STRIP ON A HEAVENLY TRIP

A MOBIUS STRIP ON A HEAVENLY TRIP
36″ x 44″

INSTANT SPACE TRAVEL IMAGINED

The Hubble Telescope has brought us visual experiences that are a shock to the senses. These are scenes of breathtaking beauty and explanations of cosmic activity that we laymen could hardly imagine.

This painting explores these images by dealing with a major direction in contemporary paintings. That is the depiction of ambiguous space and abstract forms. It is not like dealing with the landscape or still life where you know the position of every element and you have a horizon to assist you. Here you can allow all convention to fly out the window…into space.

The segment of a Mobius strip that is the center of the painting is a play on the idea of traveling through the universe. It is one of the enigmas in geometry where you can follow a straight line on its surface and return to the identical spot where you started, which would make it a one-dimensional surface on a three-dimensional form. Einstein thought that traveling through the universe would happen in a similar manner.

Collaged and painted into this picture are some Hubble images of a star cluster, a nebulae and a galaxy, all not in the correct position, which is the benefit of working abstractly.