It’s the strangeness of the universe that has always been my favorite part of physics. - Nia Imara

I paint mostly black people because I am black...I think it’s a cultural crisis in America, how people see themselves, and I think that should be an ambition in any art form to uplift people in some way.

We know that molecular clouds are elaborate, and that their complex geometry is tied to star formation. But the images we have of them are flat — they’re inherently two-dimensional.

The link between art and science for me is my love of color and my love of light.