By Samantha Wortelhock
Original Painting and Limited Edition Giclee print size: 850 x 1150mm

Universe Cell

A Human Egg

One Cell

The promise of Life

A pattern of happiness, of creation, of strife.

Round and perfect it waits patiently, knowing in it's heart that it is the Universe child, a perfect blueprint of all that lives.

Yet we search galaxies for why we exist

Is it God, is it science ..... ?

It simply just Is.

It dreams of evolving, a spiral of time, cycles within cycles infinite revolving.

From Cell to foetus to family to world, cycles of seasons of planets and....Oh!

What we have here are many hands touching, all of us silent in a s©ance of watching. Waiting for that moment when sperm touches egg.....

The Universe contracts

A new sacred life born

A cell-ebration of Love....

A distant star explodes spawn.

The Story Behind The Painting
Within a single cell we can see the whole universe. Circles within circles begining with the nucleus of the cell which first divides to create a new life. We move out of the centre to the womb containing a foetus and to the cycles of family and behind them the sun which sustains all of life. Then we see Earth with all it's orbits and cycles of seasons. Beyond it the Universe. Holding it all in context are the hands representing the Collective Consciousness. One hand grabs hold of a sperm through the villi of the womb showing that this universe is indeed an egg about to be transformed in to a microcosm of it's Self.