Cézanne and the Hubble Telescope, separated by 150 years, share a profound kinship in expanding human vision. Cézanne revealed geometry and rhythm in everyday life, while the Hubble photographs are revealing a universe beyond our natural sight.
This “mystery of deep seeing”—the ability to perceive beyond the obvious, to uncover hidden structures, relationships, and possibilities—is important to me now more than ever. In Cézanne Meets Hubble, I am looking at the non-objective, the abstract, and the non-linear to encourage a pause, inviting us to reflect on what is meaningful by perceiving patterns that are not immediately visible.
In our world flooded with information and distraction, cultivating this perception helps society imagine alternative futures, fostering insight, empathy, and creativity. Understanding the unseen—whether in our neighborhoods, through contemporary art, or across distant galaxies—is essential for shaping thoughtful, purposeful action in our collective future.
Each of my final photograph has three distinct elements that are combined: one of my landscape photographs, a re-photograph of one of Cézanne’s paintings hanging in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a re- photograph of an image from the NASA generated data sent back by the Hubble Telescope. I processed these three elements together in photoshop to arrive at a new image.
