"The interminable days of the pandemic gave Roz Dorlen time to apply
her powers of scientific observation via virtuoso use of the telescope,
where pictures decoded by her personal, expressive and artistic lens are realized as astronomically based luminous oil paintings of cosmic phenomena. The resulting works in “Spaces of the Cosmos, The Pandemic Series,” shown at Jadite Galllery, are no space operas, but instead glow as documents of the universe’s ceaseless drama of change – the painter finding the deeply pessimistic contagion time an opportunity for hope and growth. With the pieces creating a sense of wonder in the viewer, one might feel an eternal force moving through these pictorial celestial manifestations in human affinity with an intuitive awareness of the ethereal." 
Anne Rudder, Gallery & Studio Arts Journal, Summer 2021

Pandemic Spacescapes 2020

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The starburst is a giant molecular cloud closest to Earth at a distanc eof approximately 17, 000 light years away.

All that remains of  a phenomenal stellar explosion first seen in 1054. 

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The Galaxy is afire and exploding.

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A star-forming region in a companion of the Milky Waywith a cluster of hot, young stars blasting in the nebula that gave it birth.

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A myriad of comet-like streamers around an exploding white dwarf.

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Chaotic cosmic pinnacle atop a pillar of gas and dust three light years high. Located in the constellation of Carina, 7,500 light years away.

An assortment of stars across a wide spectrum.  There is a frenzy of star birth in the galaxies.