I was painting some more constellations tonight and suddenly I understood why I like them so much.
It's because they bring together and harmonize so many ideas that are opposites.
People keep telling me how atomic some of them look, and yet they represent something that is lightyears big. So there is a blending of the very big and the very small.
Then there is the idea of the connections to the past with all of the mythology and ancient history. There are connections to the future with NASA and the Aries program to go explore Mars.
There is something of humanity in all art, and yet there is something immortal, dare I say alien about what