These paintings take their inspiration from the wealth of recent images offered by the scientific community illustrating our universe. As astronomers unveil unprecedented pictures of natural phenomena in the heavens, a new landscape being created. The current visual expansion of our known and unknown universe allows for an updated interpretation in the tradition of landscape painting. Formally this work seeks to locate the viewer and the painter in this new field of observation. As the knowledge of the universe expands, so does our visual frontier. This work sets out to render, to articulate, to praise, and to ponder a contemporary manifest destiny.