Beyond Light Years | Xue Wang

Beyond Light Years by Xue Wang

Travel across time and space with Beyond Light Years by Xue Wang—a mesmerizing tribute to Kepler-1649c, one of the most Earth-like exoplanets discovered to date. Infused with cosmic mystery and pop surrealist flair, this piece invites viewers to peer into a world that exists 301 light-years away—unseen yet deeply felt.

Wang paints this distant realm not as cold data, but as a living, breathing dreamscape. Through soft textures, vintage sci-fi charm, and her signature doll-like figures, she reimagines the habitable zone of Kepler-1649c as a place where new forms of life, beauty, and consciousness might quietly thrive. The mood is contemplative, uncanny, and eerily serene—balancing scientific possibility with mythic wonder.

Named after a planet described by SETI scientists as the “most similar to Earth” ever discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope, Beyond Light Years dares us to imagine: What if we're not alone? And if we're not—what might be looking back?

Rooted in the artist’s fascination with space, the unknown, and surreal interpretations of distant worlds, this painting is both an escape and an awakening. A vision not of where we are, but where we might one day go.

Ideal for dreamers, sci-fi lovers, and seekers of the unseen, Beyond Light Years is an open door to everything that lies just out of reach—and beyond.

Because somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.