Each painting in Carolyn Goodridge’s newest body of encaustic work offers a unique experience, parallel to the experience undergone as the artist creates the work. Goodridge intends for the viewer to experience an initial moment of “no thought” just a feeling of immediacy, recognizing the timeless “now” of the present moment. She anticipates the viewer’s inclination to respond inquisitively to planetary abstract art and intuitively draw associations to color and simply elegant circle combinations.

The paintings in: Om, The Cosmology of Now are each associated with the ancient meditative sound of Aum and an inner vision of the cosmos. Goodridge offers an abstract planetary account of the activity in our universe. These references can be macrocosmic or microcosmic. Patanjali--who wrote the Yoga Sutra and is considered to be the father of classical yoga--taught that when we chant this sacred syllable Aum and simultaneously contemplate the meaning of it, our consciousness becomes "one-pointed: and prepared for meditation.

In all cases the paintings are created spontaneously within the confines of the circle, which can also be seen as a mandala. According to Dr. Michio Kaku, physicist, our world is made up of vibrating strings. He says that the Mind of God is music resonating in eleven dimensions throughout hyperspace! In “Carina’s Fire Song”, a painting inspired by the NASA’s Hubble super telescope image of Carina Nebula, two objects meet in a firey burst of hot pink, yellow ochre, rose madder and white. This exhibition has twenty encaustic paintings. Encaustic is an ancient medium dating back past 800 B.C. Pigmented beeswax was used by Greeks and Eyptians to waterproof and decorate their war ships and mummy masks.