3' x 4' Acrylic on Canvas "Ed Moses 'Bringing Star Power to Earth'"

 © Nova Starling 2005

Edward Ira Moses

"Bringing Star Power to Earth" 

Artist's Comment

While touring the National Ignition Facility  at the Laurance Livermore National Laboratory, I learned that the fusion created when its  lasers hit their target is similar to the fusion created in the formation of a star.

I tell this story with layers of metaphors. Space is a metaphor for the unlimited possibilities of the human spirit. Ed's placement in a nebula, the birthplace of stars is another metaphor. In the painting's background is the Omega Nebula.  I liked what looked like the imprint of a human figure formed in its nearby gasses. It suggested to me the interaction and exchange between man and his environment, another metaphor. The figure sits like a constellation in the Universe, his physical nature becoming almost transparent as he merges into  space, another metaphor.

The painting is about the human spirit aiming towards the light of one's own vision, another metaphor. 

I wonder what it is about the human spirit that chooses a path that the body must follow?

I think each person's unique path is the metaphor from which their spirit learns.

Credits

Inspiration for the painting's background was from the Hubble site, the Omega Nebula.

Facts

The Omega, also called the Swan nebula, is located in the constellation Sagittarius.

Take a closer look

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