Cosmos Interstellar

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 6ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Out of Darkness

Cosmos Interstellar (2024) expands upon the ideas of its sibling work, Cosmos, but does so with greater scale and force. This 72 x 72 inch oil painting from the Out of Darkness collection feels like a portal — a gravitational field pulling you through the canvas and beyond.

At the center is a glowing oval, its edges diffused with lavender, silvery white, and ink-black. Radiating outward are arcs of motion and swirling fogs of paint that ripple with energy. The brushwork is energetic yet refined, suggesting matter swirling through time. Unlike Cosmos, which hums in stillness, Cosmos Interstellar spins.

I created this piece after reading about gravitational waves and deep space echoes — not to illustrate physics, but to reflect the awe they inspire. This is a painting of movement and emergence. Of something vast being born.

The work shares kinship with Julie Mehretu’s layered abstractions and Mark Rothko’s mystical fields, bridging frenetic gesture with spiritual silence. Like them, I’m less concerned with depiction and more with the emotional impact of scale and color.

Cosmos Interstellar is an invitation to travel — not outward, but inward. Into the part of ourselves that still believes in wonder.