As a physician, our body is literally like a miracle to me. The fact that our skin is self healing, our bones fuse back together, we breathe and our heart beats while we use our body to do other things all day long without even thinking about it, how we create life, how little humans grow within us and are born.

The fact that all of it, almost every bit of it, comes from cosmic dust and stars — it’s all just so damn magical.  Researchers estimate that we are approximately 97% stardust, formed over 13 billion years ago.  Scientists used infrared spectrography to survey almost 200,000 stars and found that 97% of the same elements that make up human life make up the entire Milky Way galaxy.

So now I have taken to calling our incredibly human bodies star suits.

“We are now able to map the abundance of all of the major elements found in the human body across hundreds of thousands of stars in our Milky Way,” said Jennifer Johnson, chair of the SDSS-III APOGEE survey and a professor at The Ohio State University, in a public statement on the research.

Can you think of anything more beautiful?

Could you be any more magnificent?

Remembering that you are the universe, coalescing into physical form, in a beautiful living earth suit of stars, and that you are breathing through it this very moment, and thinking a thought at this very moment, and your heart is beating in this very moment, aren’t you so impressed with your body? 

You are having a conscious experience full of meaning and feeling and using it to interact with other star dust humans. It’s so beautiful. Connecting and attuning with each other, overlapping our heart energy fields with those that we love.  You literally become one completely unique universe, together. 

Connecting your star suit with other star suits feels magical, precisely because that's exactly what it is... magical.

It's so magical for two star suits to connect their two universe-containing bodies together that I wanted to paint it for you, to remind you of the multitudes of stars you each carry, forming your own private and totally unique universe, together. 

No other two star suits could exactly replicate the universe you form together.  

If you need a reminder that you contain an entire Universe within your precious body you are wearing, I painted this for you.

Or if you are looking for a spectacular gift for the partner that you love and feel magically connected to, I painted this for you.

Giclee prints are professionally printed on velvet smooth heavyweight archival paper using archival ink and available in 8" x10", 11" x 14", 16" x 20" and 20" x 24" sizes and are signed by the artist -- me!  The watermark does not appear on the prints.

The original painting was painted with acrylic paint on a 16" x 20" gallery wrapped canvas and has sold.  

To the glorious human star suit you are wearing!

xoxox, Laura Koniver MD