Light years

This is a piece that I created while at Rocky Mountain College of art and design. When It was installed, I mounted it so that the painting hung 9 inches away from the wall. I installed Fluorescent tubes on the inside of the framing of the painting. I then painted the wall in a radius 12' from the painting's edges, so in total the piece was 26' wide.  After painting the wall i mounted hooks into the wall and installed 12000' of ribbons that tangled out from the painting and onto the wall. I wanted to encapsulate the viewer in the work, to have them bound in a nest or womb type of situation. The piece features an astronaut in the fetal position. The piece represents the infinite possibility of life.