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This panel started life as a Tea Chest in which tea was shipped from Sri Lanka. There was a fun semi-circle cut out of it, and I wanted to figure out some way to use it.

In the magnifying lens is a painting of the first Hubble Deep Field photographs, taken just after the Hubble telescope's lenses were repaired. They pointed the telescope at the darkest area of the sky in which no light had ever been seen and took an image - what came back was a photo of thousands of galaxies; just mind-blowing. It always fills me with such awe to see those images, and to try to grasp just how big the universe is, that we found thousands of galaxies in a little pin-speck of black sky where we thought there was nothing. Boom!

The painting is protected with a removable satin UV acrylic varnish, the sides are clean wood sealed with acrylic medium and varnish.  Hanging hardware is included.

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Journey to the Start of the Universe Painting

Colin Mitchell

Canada

Painting, Acrylic on Wood

Size: 15.3 W x 11.8 H x 1.5 D in

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This panel started life as a Tea Chest in which tea was shipped from Sri Lanka. There was a fun semi-circle cut out of it, and I wanted to figure out some way to use it. In the magnifying lens is a painting of the first Hubble Deep Field photographs, taken just after the Hubble telescope's lenses were repaired. They pointed the telescope at the darkest area of the sky in which no light had ever been seen and took an image - what came back was a photo of thousands of galaxies; just mind-blowing. It always fills me with such awe to see those images, and to try to grasp just how big the universe is, that we found thousands of galaxies in a little pin-speck of black sky where we thought there was nothing. Boom! The painting is protected with a removable satin UV acrylic varnish, the sides are clean wood sealed with acrylic medium and varnish. Hanging hardware is included.

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Painting:

Acrylic on Wood

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

15.3 W x 11.8 H x 1.5 D in

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Rather than having a single style of repeated works, I prefer to have a large group of themes, ideas and styles to draw from which I periodically re-visit, and which will continually grow, evolve and influence each other, leading to new interests over the course of my lifetime. I take a very long-term approach to art creation, seeing the scope of my past, present and planned future work all together, and how it will all be unified at the end of my life into a cohesive whole. I feel that approaching art in this way keeps my work fresh, and helps it to be less repetitive and formulaic than if I were to work in the same style for long periods of time, repeating the same motions and artwork over and over. This decision echoes my feeling that life is a long series of learning adventures in which we examine our surroundings and turn them inside-out to study and interpret them, then show others what we have learned from the experience.

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