Anthropic Universe print

$40$80

Billy Shannon

Open edition print of the original painting
Archival ink on Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Pearl 290gsm paper
2024

Description

This is an open edition print of the original painting, Anthropic Universe, which explores the contemporary physics concept that only a universe capable of developing observers can be observed.
There are 2 sizes available.

Like most of my work, this painting holds half-seen subtle images. A sleeping figure of dormant consciousness emerges from the centre, a city suggested at the edge of creation, civilisation teetering on the brink of the known and the unknowable. A ghostly cross alludes to the intersection of faith and science, the cosmic and the personal, and the multitude of beliefs that coalesce in our shared reality.

I am not looking at any one culture, all of life on Earth seeks to thrive. For me, the painting also questions if intelligent life co-created the universe, is it born out of our dreams?

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