#TurtleTuesday :
Hunt Slonem (American, b. 1951)
Turtle Tondo, 1986
Oil on canvas, D 36 in. (91.44 cm)
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Overview
Oil, 24 x 24 in, 2020
Happy Earth Day! The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space.
From space, the Earth is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, hanging in the void, shielded by a paper-thin atmosphere. The conflicts that divide people seem naive and parochial. National boundaries vanish, encouraging a sense of unity with all of humanity and life on Earth. We are reminded that we are one. The need to create a cooperative planetary society with the united will to protect this planet becomes both obvious and imperative. We really are all in this together.
“When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile … Anybody else who’s ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it’s really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space.”
-Ron Garan, Astronaut
Prints (includes moon to scale): https://robrey.storenvy.com
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Did a lighting study but made it Arthur Lester as a result of Malevolent brainrot
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Moonlight, Chalk Lane
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