In this painting, "Abyssal Night" I show different deep sea creatures and invent a few of my own. Scientists still know so little about all of the creatures lurking many miles deep in the ocean. It is like having space aliens on earth! Those hot, nutrient rich sulfuric vents in deep underwater mountain gullies congregate organisms... it is a little Adam and Eve orgy down there! Crazy creepy self-lit creatures glide under water through OUR PLANET while we blithely scurry around in our noisy cities. Europa, one of Jupiter's moons is covered in ice and because of the flex and pull of gravity and the possibility of a moving ocean under that ice, scientists speculate it is an abode for extraterrestrial life.... and that's just within our scrappy little inconsequential solar system!
ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE? I seriously doubt that .... Battlestar Galactica here we come!!

"Abyssal Night" Copyright 2012 Sarah Olson

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