Marshall Roemen © 2024

This series was about spatial entities that are incomprehensible and completely unavailable as sensory experiences, beginning with quasars. Quasars are massive, extremely remote celestial objects emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy. These physically "absent", incomprehensibly large celestial bodies include "3C-273", the nearsest quasar to our solar system. It sits 2.5 billion light years away and is approximately 200,000 light years long. The mere contemplation of such realities begs the question of what can occur within infinite space and what might be possible even in the finite spaces that allow for, in essence, infinite imagination. (For reference, one light year is approximately 6 trillion miles long, or 6,000 billion miles, where one billion miles is equal10 times the distance from the earth to the sun.) C3-273

acrylic, oil, paint chips, 58 x 58"
2006

Gold

oil, pastel, and gold leaf on wood panel, 32 x 34", 2016

Thread

oil, 38 x 54"
2018