erik g.

This is a bit of a stylistic branch from previous panpsychism paintings as well as from my newer exoplanet series. I’m not sure why I went down this direction but it started feeling cohesive after a lot of trial and error.

ALT TEXT: Painting with purple, cyan, orange and blue brush strokes

“Mountains of the collective mind”

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

This is part of my panpsychism series. Panpsychism posits that all things have a quality of consciousness or awareness.
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I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

I have been using the same digital painting app since 1999.

Art in this series does not mimic photographic-style representations you may see in articles on exoplanets. Rather I aim for the unphotographable: an impression, a dream-like sensation, an abstract mental panorama of conditions or geography on the exoplanet.

Ross 128 b is an Earth-sized, rocky exoplanet that orbits within the habitable zone of star Ross 128. It’s the second closest exoplanet to the Earth only after Proxima Centauri b and it’s located 11 light years in the constellation of Virgo.

Painting with purple, yellow, orange brush strokes

“A thousand kinds of silence in the southern desert of Ross 128b”

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Part of my “Exoplanet” series

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Inspired by wondering about the billions of planets in the Milky Way.

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Typo: this exoplanet weighs about 2 earth masses.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

Humans exploring this exoplanet may be subject to extreme forces and atmospheric conditions like ionizing radiation. I wanted to try to imagine what it's like to be there.

Art in this series does not mimic photographic-style representations you may see in articles on exoplanets.

Gliese 3323 b is 17.5 light years from the Earth in the constellation of Eridanus. It weighs about 1 earth masses, thought to be a borderline habitable rocky planet, while a year there is 5.4 days long and it’s very close to its small sun.

Painting with blue, black, orange, brown and yellow strokes in a hybrid watercolor / brush method.

“Suspended in the plasma envelope on Gliese 3323 b”

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series.

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So lovely

Such an interesting look, I'm surprised that is a photograph.

I have been using the same digital painting app since 1999.

Art in this series does not mimic photographic-style representations you may see in articles on exoplanets. Rather I aim for the unphotographable: an impression, a dream-like sensation, an abstract mental panorama of conditions or geography on the exoplanet.

We hear of many anomalies in spacecraft launches, and sometimes during missions like Apollo 13. But unforeseen problems can crop up during descents and landings as well, especially if the journey takes decades and the spacecraft ages a lot.

Kepler-1473 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits an F-type star 2,039 light years away, discovered in 2016. Its mass is 1.81 Earths, and takes 14.4 days to complete one orbit of its star.

Painting with much orange, blue, black colors.

“Space anomaly on descent to Kepler 1473 f”

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

#art #abstractart #abstract #exoplanet #astronomy #space

Art in this series does not mimic photographic-style representations you may see in articles on exoplanets. Rather I aim for the unphotographable: an impression, a dream-like sensation, an abstract mental panorama of conditions or geography on the exoplanet.

The title came to me after making and then studying this painting quite a bit. The title raises a lot of questions, like why did humans or their robotic agents land on LP 791-18 d and what made them try to get to the equator. And so on. I like the negative space that gives things a place to breathe.

Due to the gravitational pull from a more massive planet, this planet could undergo volcanic outbursts as often as Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active body in our solar system.

LP 791-18 d is a potentially rocky world, a similar size and mass as Earth, and is about 90 light-years away from us. It is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits an M-type star, it takes 2.8 days to complete one orbit of its star.

A painting with many swaths of orange, red, and dark gray

“Lava divagation problem on the way to the equator of LP 791-18 d”

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. AI tools don’t have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

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Art in this series does not mimic photographic-style representations you may see in articles on exoplanets. Rather I aim for the unphotographable: an impression, a dream-like sensation, an abstract mental panorama of conditions or geography on the exoplanet.

GJ 1002 c is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits an M-type star. A potentially rocky world, within the conservatively defined habitable zone. It has a mass of 1.36 Earths, & takes 21.2 days to complete one orbit of its star.

The motivation for some humans who leave on the first inter-steller voyage to an exoplanet might be the sense that they are not of this place (the modern world). What I wanted to explore is what happens when they arrive at an exoplanet and then don’t feel like they belong there either.

An abstract painting with red, green, yellow, orange, pink and blue colors.

“Not of this planet either (GJ 1002 c)”
© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

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Inspired by some of the amazing images of gravitational lensing that makes profoundly far away galaxies more visible. And also gravastars. Gravity is an immensely powerful force throughout the universe, like a god.

Painting with blue, yellow, red, orange, black, and brown elements.

“Gravity the unseeing goddess of exoplanets“
© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. AI tools don’t have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

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Will people launch expeditions to closeby stars like HD 20794?

HD 20794 D is one of the best potentially habitable exoplanets found so far. What might the travelers find there? What problems from earth will affect the first humans to visit this intriguing planet?