'Viriditas' Original Oil Painting
'Viriditas' 24x20 inches, oil on aluminum composite panel.
Viriditas (Latin, literally “greenness,” formerly translated as “viridity”[1]) is a word meaning vitality, fecundity, lushness, verdure, or growth.
The science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson used ‘Viriditas’ quasi-theologically to mean “the green force of life, expanding into the Universe.”
I like that usage…especially if the simple biological tendency of life to evolve and spread is entwined with a metaphor for human knowledge growing and building on itself as our curiosity and creativity drive it to expand ever further and encompass more and more of the universe.
'Viriditas' 24x20 inches, oil on aluminum composite panel.
Viriditas (Latin, literally “greenness,” formerly translated as “viridity”[1]) is a word meaning vitality, fecundity, lushness, verdure, or growth.
The science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson used ‘Viriditas’ quasi-theologically to mean “the green force of life, expanding into the Universe.”
I like that usage…especially if the simple biological tendency of life to evolve and spread is entwined with a metaphor for human knowledge growing and building on itself as our curiosity and creativity drive it to expand ever further and encompass more and more of the universe.
'Viriditas' 24x20 inches, oil on aluminum composite panel.
Viriditas (Latin, literally “greenness,” formerly translated as “viridity”[1]) is a word meaning vitality, fecundity, lushness, verdure, or growth.
The science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson used ‘Viriditas’ quasi-theologically to mean “the green force of life, expanding into the Universe.”
I like that usage…especially if the simple biological tendency of life to evolve and spread is entwined with a metaphor for human knowledge growing and building on itself as our curiosity and creativity drive it to expand ever further and encompass more and more of the universe.