The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
-- Douglas Adams
Yesterday I posted the second version of my Nonplanetary Landscape series, a concept based on the idea of a planet of a non-spherical shape. This first version was wrapped around a torus knot which is seen from an extreme wide angle perspective.
Nonplanetary Landscape, 2002
Acrylic/oil on fiberboard
40 x 30 cm / 15.75 x 11.81 in
Private collection / Austria
This Torus knot was the geometry I used for the painting:
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Super Bild!
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Danke Kathrina!
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Super Landschaft, Peter!
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Danke Vesna!
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Lovely. I usually associate your pieces here with more washed out tones and industrial themes, usually a bit Giger-esque too. Add in some color, and I get a Michael Whelan feel, probably because it reminds me of the cover to The Integral Trees. It's also really neat that the side facing the light is scorched and meteor-pocked, while the terrain on the opposite is a bit more inviting.
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Thank you @see.feel.write for your feedback! I was actually thinking of Larry Niven's Ringworld while I was working on it!
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Master's skill, I am deeply inspired by your artwork @gric.
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I'm glad to hear that! Thank you @chalidteuku!
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Reminds me of the Ringworld books and the strange worlds in Iain Banks' culture books.
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I was getting the same vibe.
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Great quote this morning @gric.
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Creative. Like Ringworld on steroids.
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Wow. Amazing detail and creativity! I'll be sure to resteem.
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Really good work! Awesome.
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That's really wild. I wonder what it would look like to live on that planet. You might see this snaking mass of planet arching into the sky and fading away.
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