This illustration represents mostly creatures that could be found on other planets.

Mike

My art submission is about how a worm hole to another planet or civilization might work and look like. There are some references to our world in this and some that might be in the world of another being in a far off planet.

Mike

Last night when it was the full moon, I was looking at the sky watch app on my husband new i-pad mini and and it was so interesting to me - I grabbed my cell phone, took a picture of the screen...and started to work on an illustration, collaging some of my images. There is something about the creative process, that when I went to sleep, I tossed the first one, it resolved itself in my dream into this illustration. A very fun challenge !

mimi

Another expression of the cosmic web of life using frog pigment in symmetrical form and the star Sirius representing the light of consciousness and origin of life. Maybe the web formations among galaxies and the myriad life forms they contain could be seen as a cosmic brain.

Grant

A realized conic anamorphic image
consisting of a re/deconstruction of
a flowery smiley face.
A few seconds later.

Fletcher Smith

Redshift: Playing Dice With the Universe
16 x 16" Oil, sheet music, galaxy map on wood.

Part of a series, Redshift, based on maps of galaxies, fragments of life on earth, and ideas from quantum theory.
This painting uses cut and woven sheet music (Chopin), oil paintings of 9 rolls of a pair of dice, and a (reverse) print of a map of galaxies to illustrate Einstein's quote. Each white point on the map represents an entire galaxy of stars. Are we alone?

Barbara

Redshift: Cosmological Constant
16 x 16", oil on wood.

One of series of paintings based on galaxy maps and quantum theory

This image questions the nature of our universe by portraying another, whimsical universe, one that exists between moments and millennia.

Barbara

Planets, moons, etc., around a star surrounded by the web of life. Actually used my own microscopic photos of frog pigment for the web structure. It reminded me of the supposed web structures among galaxies. In symmetry, the web took on a facial appearance with a pair of eyes looking out. Looks like an archetypal snake or humanoid to me. The star is Sirius (Dog Star/brightest star besides the sun) and is surrounded by snowflakes reflecting moonlight from last evening's snowfall. I'm trying to express a non-dualistic or paradoxical notion to the small, yet profoundly vast web of life. My background as a clinical psychologist and amateur astrobiologist influenced the image. I love this topic and I am honored to be included for consideration.

Grant

Here's my second piece that's part of my abstraction of the universe series, titled, Rebirth_2.

Christopher

This is an abstract painting I did for my painting class at Lyme Academy School of Fine Arts (Old Lyme, CT). The piece is titled, The Universe Looking Back at Itself. I personified the universe and it's globular dust formations.

Christopher

Rocket Girl with Pie

All aluminium construction, enamel paint

Dimensions 84" diameter X 4" depth

Inspired by the question, " What kind of pinup would Dan Dare have painted on his rocket ? " and a homage to Mel Ramos.

Steve

A realized conic anamorphic image consisting of a re/deconstruction of a flowery smiley face.

Fletcher Smith

a perhaps improved version of my earlier submission of the same theme. The noises astronomers hear from space is just music we do not understand sent to us in response to the symbols and mathematics we sent to space and which are not understood by the musicians of space.

Kirby

It seems to me that the idea that Earth is the only planet with life defies the logic of millions of planets spread around billions of miles of space. "Are we alone?" is not the question. The real question is "How many others are there?"

This view of Earth from the moon combines a view of the universe with both real and imagined beings.

Kirby

My title for this is "we send math, they send music"

Kirby

My work is original cut & paste paper collage. This piece is part of a triptych, 'Things Fall Apart', expressing my feeling that everything is connected yet our contemporary culture has encouraged & created disconnection - so we feel all alone in the world although we surely are not.

Gail

Title: Punctuated Space.

If we are alone, we are a bracketed quantity, singular, specific. If we are not alone, the ellipses imply the reach of the universe.

Margot

an illustration I did some time ago to answer your question.

tom

The other cheap dorm room in the hostel on Gliese 581g.

rob

we're here. something is out there. do we know what it is?

ariel