THE ART OF COSMORGANISM

WHITE DWARF

2025 - Digital painting

This artistic rendition invites you to take a glimpse billions of years into our planetary future, where the remnants of a hypothetical Earth have narrowly survived the Sun’s red giant phase. The scorched, lifeless rock sheepishly drifts behind the star’s corpse, now reduced to a ghastly white dwarf.*Turn device brightness up & click on image for a better viewing experience.

BIRTH OF A PLANET

2025 - Digital painting

This artistic rendition invites you to glimpse billions of years into our planetary past, where a primordial Earth basks in the fire of our juvenile Sun. Orbiting loyally beside it—and much closer than it is today—lies the newly formed moon. Both celestial bodies drift silently, save for their turbulent surfaces, where space debris slams into a forming crust ablaze by relentless seismic activity. Although this Earth looks unrecognizable now, in several hundred million years primitive life would emerge from the bellies of tidal pools, transforming this barren world into a hospitable oasis.*Note: This piece has been archived and is in the process of being redrawn.

001. FORMATION OF THE EARTH

2026 - Digital painting

~1hr timed painting challenge that stylistically depicts the early Hadean Earth, when it was still being bombarded by debris leftover from the formation of the Solar System.

THE PRIMITIVE EARTH-MOON SYSTEM

2026 - Digital painting

This illustration depicts a point in time in our planetary past when the Earth was growing acquainted with its new ocean, interspersed by isolated volcanic landmasses that had been desecrated by asteroids and other debris leftover from the formation of the Solar System. While it looks rather bleak for these protocontinents, the crater ponds—along with shallow marine environments receiving sunlight—provide the perfect conditions for all sorts of intriguing chemistry to happen.Meanwhile, the Moon is seen clearly lacking some of its most prominent features—namely its larger basin formations, which it would receive during the later stages of heavy early Solar System bombardment. It is also remarkably closer to the Earth than it is today, and has been drifting away ever since due to tidal interactions.Scale & distance have been altered for visual discerment.*Turn device brightness up & click on image for a better viewing experience.

MARS, A LIVING WORLD

2026 - Digital painting

A speculative illustration of Mars billions of years into its planetary past, when it hosted water & potentially life. Some NASA measurements for ancient ocean accumulation were referenced, but artistic licensure was prioritized over accuracy.The speculative biota of this planet is subtle—alien organisms akin to microbial colonies have transitioned onto the challenging land environment, and are abundant enough to visibly clump near shorelines and lakes.*Turn device brightness up & click on image for a better viewing experience.

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DEATH

2025 - Digital painting

A simple, stylized painting of a late Earth, loomed over by the sun in its red giant phase.*Turn device brightness up & click on image for a better viewing experience.

~700 Ma: THE STURTIAN GLACIATION

2026 - Digital painting

The Sturtian glaciation was one of multiple global ice ages events known as “Snowball Earth.” Life was still unicellular and predominantly photosynthetic, so the ice sheets covering the oceans from pole to pole likely altered their ecosystems to the point of mass extinctions.But what’s most surprising is that life not only survived this period, but diversified. Some scientists even believe that it was the environmental changes during the Sturtian and following glaciation periods that led to the emergence of multicellular life!*Turn device brightness up & click on image for a better viewing experience.

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HADEAN EARTH: A CRADLE FOR LIFE?

2026 - Digital painting

This artistic rendition takes you back billions of years into our planetary past when the Earth was facing turbulent seismic activity and mass extraterrestrial bombardment.One particular asteroid is seen hurling towards the nascent planet with great rigor, threatening to desecrate some of the newly formed landmasses. However, a spark of potential has hitched a ride on board—because not only is this asteroid water-rich, it also contains all five nucleobases necessary for DNA and RNA, reflecting recent findings on asteroids Bennu and Ryugu. Once it strikes the Earth, the impact crater will become a basin for a warm little pond, creating a cradle for these newly delivered biomolecules to amass in complexity.*Turn device brightness up & click on image for a better viewing experience.

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HOME, FROM THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON

2026 - Digital painting

On April 1st, 2026, the world watched with bated breath as the Artemis II mission carrying four astronauts launched on a historical 10-day voyage around the Moon, marking humanity’s first return to deep space in over 50 years.As the mission photos from the far side of the Moon reveal our sheepishly small planet basking in shadow, it presents a humbling prospect—let us be reminded that the small, vulnerable streak of blue is what houses and feeds us, and despite the tendency towards incredulous division and the erection of false borders upon its surface, it remains home to every human being who has ever lived. It is all we have.Earth, you are a crew.*Turn device brightness up & click on image for a better viewing experience.

A WARM LITTLE POND

2026 - Digital painting

You are looking up from the bottom of a warm little pond, ~4.0 billion years ago. Microscopic proto-lifeforms float and replicate about, inseminating themselves into every crease of the murky basin.
They are malleable and fleeting entities for now—but as their machinery slowly amasses in complexity and stability, their furious propagation will carve out the mountains & fill the seas with evermore squirming selves.Organisms have been scaled up dramatically for visual discernment.*Turn device brightness up & click on image for a better viewing experience.

THE FIRST ANIMALS

2026 - Sculpture

A series of sculptures celebrating three enigmatic organisms of the Ediacaran Period, thought to be some of Earth's earliest macroscopic animals. All sculptures have been 3D modeled, printed, and painted by me. From L to R: Dickinsona, Charnia, Kimberella. Better photos pending.*Not meant to be taken as an accurate paleontological render!

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THE ARCHEAN SHALLOWS

2026 - 3D Render & Digital painting

An artistic rendition of an early Archean eon landscape ~4 billion years ago.*Turn device brightness up & click on image for a better viewing experience.

LAND RISING

2026 - 3D Render & Digital painting

An artistic rendition of an ambiguous volcanic island in our planetary past.*Turn device brightness up & click on image for a better viewing experience.

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MERGING

2025 - Macrophotography

An abstract photograph achieved by mixing various inks and solvents.*Turn device brightness up & click on image for a better viewing experience.

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