US, Nov. 2 -- My goal this festive season was to paint a picture symbolizing our life on this earth, but what does one mean by life? To me, "Life" is a collection of experiences we go through from our birth to our death; these experiences result from our brain processing all the input from our five physical senses.

Instead of drawing people, animals, objects, or landscapes, I wanted to create an abstract symbolism. Being a student of physics, my first thought was to graphically depict our life on a space-time plot. Our lifespan can be represented by a segment of the time axis, drawn in bright colors like yellow or gold.

Everything before our birth and everything after our death can be represented as black segments of the axis because t...