Bring on the Cheese

In Each Human Coupling a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg.  Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise SON; that exact DAUGHTER.  The world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget.  We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions.  Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take ones breath away.  You are LIFE, rarer than a quark, unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.  Dry Your Eyes.

-Alan Moore

So a little over a month ago I went to a family reunion in Wisconsin, we slept in a tent outside of my uncles place.  I took my time getting to bed and that night I wrote in my sketchbook.  Yes I have thoughts occasionally.  Here is verbatim what I wrote, don't make fun:

"I stood in a field in the middle of Wisconsin, it was late and looking at the sky and the trillions of stars.  I felt small, like everything I am is irrelevant to the universe.  In the kaleidoscope of stars and planets I saw one move; a satellite.  Man has created stars... they move, we have affected the heavens and it was beautiful."

So it inspired me to make a painting... enjoy.