I am honored that The Center for Humans and Nature has published an article about my work in its latest issue. The article is titled Life in the Cosmos: Micro and Macro and features some of my favorite paintings. The Center’s mission is to “explore and promote human responsibilities in relation to nature — the whole community of life.”

Upon reaching my 80th birthday last year, I embarked on my Legacy Project with the goal of producing a book containing my favorite and most important works with related writings: blogs, autobiographical stories, philosophical musings, and why the arts are essential for human well-being.

The last part of my pilgrimage took me to Bilbao, then Rotterdam, and finally to Amsterdam.

While visiting Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci in November 2023, two of the school’s lively young journalists interviewed me. Click on the magazine’s banner to read what they wrote.

In the film La Vacanza, the script called for a Countess. The film director enlisted me to play the Contessa Americana alongside the protagonists played by Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero.

This painting is an allegory that tells a story: the Ancient Egyptian Goddess of the Sky, Nut, forms a protective arch over the 17th century woman astronomer who is gazing at Saturn through an early telescope. She is Galileo’s daughter, the Catholic nun Suor Celeste, whose name in Italian means Sister Sky.

Each year the Community Church of Boston hosts a memorial ceremony in honor of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants who were wrongfully executed by the State of Massachusetts in 1927.

“We must stay, open-eyed, in the terrible place…” from May Sarton’s poem “The Invocation to Kali”

The tubules seen here are metaphorical cornucopias overflowing with a few of Earth's endless life forms.

Warm volcanic pools of water undergo continuous cycles of evaporation and then hydrating from precipitation

PROMISE

As Carl Sagan said, "We're made of star stuff."

The Protocells Triptych is the fruit of my collaboration with David Deamer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California Santa Cruz and world expert in origins of life research. The collaboration began in 2021 and culminated in the pastels being displayed in the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History at UCSC.

This year “Science Friction” is showing at the Azkuna Zentroa cultural center in Bilbao