The Laboratory

This painting is part of a series the artist made depicting the "Loves of Jupiter." Ganymede is a beautiful youth, nude except for a flowing red cloth. He is being carried aloft by a massive eagle, who is Zeus in disguise. The painting captures a moment of gentle surrender and almost dreamy sensu...

The Architect of the Void The fundamental premise of the cosmos is that gravity serves as the primary driver for all subsequent complexity.
In the earliest epoch, the state of the expanse was characterized by a total absence of structure.
The distribution of hydrogen atoms was so sparse that the mean free path between particles was effectively infinite.
This extreme dispersion required a timeline of billions, or perhaps trillions, of years for gravitational attraction to overcome the initial ...

(Aetat Six) Now every night we light the grate And I sit up till really late; My Father sits upon the right, My Mother on the left, and I Between them on an ancient chair, That once belonged to my Great-Gran, Before my Father was a man. We sit without another light; I really, truly never tire Watching that space, as black as night, That hangs behind the fire; For there sometimes, you know, The dearest, queerest little sparks, Without a sound creep to and fro; Sometimes they form in rings Or l...