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The image should evoke the vertiginous wonder of encountering something that defies every category we have — a world that is neither solid nor gaseous but endlessly becoming, endlessly dissolving. The viewer should feel the sublime terror and rapture of standing before something fundamentally alien yet viscerally familiar, the way molten rock is both beautiful and annihilating. This draws on the tradition of J.M.W. Turner's late cosmic abstractions and Hilma af Klint's cosmological paintings — works where matter itself seems to be in the process of revelation, hovering between the known and the unknowable.
A massive molten planet fills the lower two-thirds of a square composition, rendered in thick sculptural impasto that makes the surface feel physically hot and viscous....