Star-Child Painting

“The Eye of Japetus had blinked, as if to remove an irritating speck of dust. David Bowman had time for just one broken sentence which the waiting men in Mission Control, nine hundred million miles away and eighty minutes in the future, were never to forget: ‘The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it’s full of stars!’” “If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.” “Van Gogh’s Bridge at Arles was hanging on one wall—Wyeth’s Christina’s World on another. He felt confident that when he pulled open the drawer of that desk, he would find a Gideon Bible inside it. . . .” “He did not even attempt to grasp the scale of the inferno toward which he was descending. The immensities of Saturn and Jupiter had defeated him, during Discovery’s fly-by in that solar system now unknown gigamiles away. But everything he saw here was a hundred times larger still; he could do nothing but accept the images that were flooding into his mind, without attempting to interpret them.” “It might have been some beautiful, incredibly detailed model, embedded in a block of plastic. But it was the reality, grasped as a whole with senses now more subtle than vision. If he wished, he could focus his attention upon any one of its hundred billion stars; and he could do much more than that.” “The timeless instant passed; the pendulum reversed its swing. In an empty room, floating amid the fires of a double star twenty thousand light-years from Earth, a baby opened its eyes and began to cry.” “It was almost, Bowman told himself, smiling at the absurdity of the thought, as if he were watching sunrise—on a sun.” “It was not fear of the galactic gulfs that chilled his soul, but a more profound disquiet, stemming from the unborn future.” “There before him, a glittering toy no Star-Child could resist, floated the planet Earth with all its peoples.” -Arthur C. Clarke & Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:36 W x 72 H x 1.5 D in

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