This celestial butterfly is a representation of our hopes and dreams for progress and transformation.
Like Kubrick’s Monolith, it is a mysterious evolutionary insistence with a silent invitation
to find some beautiful destiny in the universe…

…and, as we have painted our hopes and dreams across the face of the earth in gleaming cities of light
blazing against the darkness, so might we one day paint our aspirations and poetry across the sky…

…and into the very biology of which we are made; we can't know what those cosmic adventurers - who will design themselves for spaceflight -
might look like, but they may be very unlike the fragile hominids that evolved in the jungles and savannas of Africa a mere blink of time ago…

The artist with the original oil painting...

...that is quite small and detailed.