BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU LAND!
MEDIUM:
Cradled wood panel-assemblage: collage, wooden drafting board, marbled paper, magnifiers, engravings, acrylic sanded painted panel.
ARTWORK:
20″ x 24″ x 2½”
FRAME:
Satin Black Finished Wood
21¼” x 25″ x 3½”
Note: Exoplanets (extra solar) are planets outside our solar system.
SPACE POLICE ALERT!
The National Interstellar Space Agency advises interstellar travelers to avoid visiting four of the most recently discovered exoplanets named Crunchy, Grouchy, Prickly and Slimy. Be warned the inhabitants of these exoplanets are considered dangerous and contact with them life threatening. Be informed anyone visiting these exoplanets will no longer be insured by the National Interstellar Space Agency. In addition. The Space Police are officially forbidden to perform rescue missions to these exoplanets regardless of who you are, where you may of come from or the severity of the emergency. Otherwise, interstellar travelers will be advised of any changes concerning the status of these exoplanets by the National Interstellar Space Agency. May your time in space be safe.
BREAKING NEWS!
A recently discovered fifth exoplanet named Scaly is like the other four exoplanets considered dangerous and now “Off Limits” to interstellar travelers until more is learned about the alien inhabitants.
The illustration is from the 1604 “Historia Animalium” by Konrad Gesner.
Notes:
- Johnson, George: The Intelligent-life Lottery, New York Times, August, 2014.
- Kluger, Jeffrey: Search for Life on the Newly Discovered Earth Like Planets, Time Magazine, March, 2017
- Klosterman, Chuck : The Hazards of Other Planets, New York Times Magazine, February, 2015.
- Mirsky, Steve: Is Anybody Anywhere? Scientific America, January, 2018.
- NASA/JP-Caltech: Planets with Potential / Seven Worlds Orbiting a Nearby Star, New York Times, December, 2017.
- Ryerson, James: Ivory Tower / The Truth is Out There, New York Times, Sunday Book Review, September, 2016. Note: Neil de Grasse, Welcome to the Universe, Barnes & Noble, Princeton University Press, 2016.
- Shostak, Seth: Should We Keep a Low Profile in Space, New York Times, March, 2015.
DRAFT
Exoplanets (extra solar) are planets outside our solar system.
Artist Notes Hawking was thinking that even if the probability is small of life appearing on a suitable planet, in a universe as large as ours, life must have appeared somewhere else besides Earth. “…if extraterrestrial life has not destroyed itself, given the short time-span of life on Earth compared with the age of the universe it is still unlikely that we would meet an example of alien life at a recognizably human stage. It would either be much more primitive than we are or so advanced that it would regard us as impossibly primitive.” 1.
Artist Note: The artwork “Dangerous Exoplanets” conjectures a future time when humans have achieved interstellar space travel and learn… here be primitive dragons inhabiting other planets that are too dangerous to make contact with.
Footnotes: 1.Ferguson, Kitty: Stephen Hawking An Unfettered Mind, Palgrave Macmillan, N.Y. 2012. Refer: Sagan, Carl: Contact, Simon & Schuster, N.Y. 1985. Mirsky, Steve: Is Anybody Anywhere Still Scanning the Skies for Other Galactic Citizens, (SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Scientific American, January, 2018. A exoplanet or extra solar planets are planets that orbit stars outside the solar system.