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Oregon visual artist, focused on abstract painting of the Unphotographable. Keen on mountains, astronomy, and cartography.
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“Above shattered Teegarden’s Star b, a pure blue heaven continues to hold everything together”

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series.

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#art #abstractart #abstract #exoplanet #astronomy #painters #painting
Painting with yellow, orange, and blue brush strokes
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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“The art of observing a proto-continent form on Proxima Centauri b”

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series.

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#art #abstractart #abstract #exoplanet #astronomy #painters #painting
Painting with yellow, orange, purple, black, green, and blue brush strokes
November 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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“Mountains of the collective mind”

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

This is part of my panpsychism series. Panpsychism posits that all things have a quality of consciousness or awareness.
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ALT TEXT: Painting with purple, cyan, orange and blue brush strokes
October 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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“A thousand kinds of silence in the southern desert of Ross 128b”

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series

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Inspired by wondering about the billions of planets in the Milky Way.

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Painting with purple, yellow, orange brush strokes
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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“Suspended in the plasma envelope on Gliese 3323 b”

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series.

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#art #abstractart #abstract #exoplanet #astronomy #painters #painting
Painting with blue, black, orange, brown and yellow strokes in a hybrid watercolor / brush method.
October 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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“Space anomaly on descent to Kepler 1473 f”

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

#art #abstractart #abstract #exoplanet #astronomy #space
Painting with much orange, blue, black colors.
October 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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“Lava divagation problem on the way to the equator of LP 791-18 d”

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. AI tools don’t have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

#art #abstractart #abstract #exoplanet #astronomy #space
A painting with many swaths of orange, red, and dark gray
October 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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“Not of this planet either (GJ 1002 c)”
© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

#art
#abstractart
#abstract
#exoplanet
#astronomy
An abstract painting with red, green, yellow, orange, pink and blue colors.
October 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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“Gravity the unseeing goddess of exoplanets“
© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

Part of my “Exoplanet” series.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. AI tools don’t have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

#art
#geography
#abstract
#exoplanet
#astronomy
Painting with blue, yellow, red, orange, black, and brown elements.
October 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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“The baggage they brought to HD 20794 D”
© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

An instance of my “Exoplanet” series that explores facets of planets identified outside the solar system.

#art #abstractart #abstract #exoplanet #astronomy
Painting with red, orange, black, brown and purple elements.
September 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Got some comments that people like the details in “A reliquary of toponyms on Trappist-1e” ... so here is a zoomed in look at the lower left corner of the painting.

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

From my “Exoplanet” series that explores facets of planets identified outside the solar system.
Zoomed in section of the painting showing fine details
September 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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“A reliquary of toponyms on Trappist-1e”

© Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

TRAPPIST-1e is a rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone around the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth.

Part of my “Exoplanet” series

#art #abstractart #abstract #exoplanet #astronomy
A painting that imagines a reliquary on TRAPPIST-1e, an exoplanet 40.7 light years away. Variety of colors including blue, green, yellow, purple and near black.
September 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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“Fear of landing on LHS 1140 b”
Copyright 2025 by Erik Goetze

I don’t use AI tools to make my art & AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

#art #abstractart #abstract #exoplanet #astronomy
A painting with mostly blue, green and some purple tones
August 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM