Dark Matter, Nancy Lewis-Shell
Acrylic on canvas, 20.5" x 26.5", 2021

Dark Matter explores what is really going on in the dark matter of the universe. The dark matter makes up 90 percent of the universe and the lighted matter - the things we can see with our eyes - makes only make up a small fraction of what’s out there (the visible stars and planets). What is happening inside of that dark matter? The artist imaged it - is inhabited creator goddess force. The artist’s image of is a goddess, an image of all women, the feminine energy power hidden from view. The goddess of the Dark Matter is the one who creates the thoughts to be manifested in the light and physical world so we can see them. The Dark Matter goddess is holding a baby inside of an orb. This baby is to give birth to: new ideas, new inventions, new relationships, and of course, is new life. She represents the season of spring. The water pouring from the orb and through her hand is the amniotic fluid from the birth of this child that originated in the primordial waters from which all life is formed by the Creator.