My most recent series of paintings are based on photographs brought by the Hubble Space Telescope. We are the first generation to see these images, to be able to look back so far in time and space. The universe revealed to us is beautiful - light storms exploding billions of years ago, millions of galaxies, the birth of stars. These star maps show us nearly unbelievable depths of time and space, yet they coexist with the minute daily miracles of earth – the opening of flowers, the symmetry of plants, the perfect geometry of skeleton and shell, the fragile monuments hand-built on earth. In the dark mirrors of these paintings we too are reflected. I painted these pieces as a meditation, a contemporary form of “illumination” and a celebration of the light that has come to us in these days as a gift.