Roaming Black Holes Miss Earth!
MEDIUM:
Cradled wood panel-assemblage: collage, wood ruler, drilled wood peg board, acrylic paint, fabric covered panel.
ARTWORK:
21½” x 16″ x 1″
FRAME:
Satin black finished wood.
22¾” x 17¼” x 3½”
DRAFT
Artist Note:“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Our posturing, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in a great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
1. Carl Sagan
Artist Note: The artwork places the Andromeda Galaxy nearest to Earth which contains a cluster of some 26 black holes. However, as suggested by the artwork a cluster of black holes threatening Earth is highly improbable. Yet, we should remember our species are just, “…little creatures growing and building against the annihilation of space and the inorganic world.”
2. Edmund Wilson
Footnotes: 1. The Blue Marble photography of Earth was taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts, December 7, 1972 at a distance of 18,000 miles from Earth. 2. Wilson, Edmund: The Twenties, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, N.Y., 1975. Refer: Tyson, N. deGrasse : Death by Black Hole, W.W. Norton, N.Y., 2007. Baker, Val, Ira: Black Hole Cluster, Science News, Resonance Science Foundation, April 5, 2018. Steadman, Ian: NASA Finds “Unprecedented” Black Hole Cluster Near Andromeda’s Central Bulge, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, January 15, 2013. The Blue Marble photograph of Earth 18,000 miles from Earth by Apollo 17 astronauts, December 7, 1972.
