5"x7" scratchboard drawing. 2015.

Following cues from "Nature Finds a Way," this piece shows a more positive (and trippy) interaction between humanity, nature, and the fabric of the universe. This piece is more hopeful, showing the possibility of coexistence in the all-encompassing cosmos.

The title references the waltz by Johan Straus II, composed with reverence to the Danube River. This opus was famously used in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. As such, the name is evocative of both Earthly beauty, and of the wonders of the cosmos.