"Green flames beanstalk toward
photons as earth awakens.
The dance starts again."

"The Deep" is a mythic vision of the connection between our Sun and life on Earth. It depicts the vision of Russian geochemist and mineralogist, Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863-1945), who saw living matter as the greatest of all geological forces.  He portrayed life as a global phenomenon in which the sun’s energy is transformed by photosynthesizing red and green bacteria, algae, and plants into a “green fire.”  The proliferation of the “green fire,” fed by the sun, pressured other beings, like animals, into becoming more complex and more dispersed.

Water, seen in lakes and ponds on the surface, is essential for life on Earth. Below the earth’s crust lie vast reservoirs of water and its mineral deposits. Deeper still, at its core, the Earth is molten iron.

Just as we are exploring deep space, populated by stars, galaxies and black holes, we are also exploring the deep oceans of Earth. The dragon-like creatures that inhabit the cosmos were inspired by gigantic siphonophores from the depths of Earth’s oceans.

This is the universe where Deep Space and Deep Water meet.