Where is Everyone?
MEDIUM:
Fabric covered canvas board – assemblage: collage-marbled paper, moulding paste, gilt cream and acrylic paint.
ARTWORK:
11 x 14 x 1”
FRAME:
Satin black finished wood.
15 x 17½ x 2”
DRAFT
For a planet to be considered habitable its distance from a solar source can be a matter of life or death.
“In the planet business, being in the right place, at the right size, with the right materials, at the right time is everything. We live on a planet that is habitable because it formed at just the right distance from the sun, in a gravitational balance with its neighbors, with just the right amount of material to support a world with liquid water, recycling crust, and an atmosphere.” 1. Neil Subin
Artist Note: “The Goldilocks principle is named by analogy to the children’s story The Three Bears, in which a little girl named Goldilocks tastes three different bowls of porridge, and she finds that she prefers porridge which is neither too hot nor too cold, but just the right temperature.”
Artwork: The artwork infers the universe has an abundance of suns & planets. Yet the probability of them forming an all or nothing habitual relationship is more dependent on circumstance and the temperature of the porridge.
Footnotes: 1. Shubin, Neil: The Universe Within, Vintage Books, N.Y., 2013. The Artist Note: quote is from Wikipedia Goggle Search. The story was written by Robert Southey and published in 1837. Refer: Overbye, Dennis: A Planet Is Too Hot for Life, but Another May Be Just Right, The New York Times, June 12, 2007. Asimov, Isaac: The Solar System and Back, (Chapter 2. The Dance of the Sun), Doubleday, N.Y. 1970.