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January 201650x60 centimeters.
Acrylic over gesso over MDF wood.
Nitrogen-based plant-like organisms growing on the soil of the 7th moon of a ringed gas giant.
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I really love your works that include life; it's never big and flashy and noisy, it's always some small scraggly plant clinging onto some rock on the fringes of space, and I find that to be really calming and charming. The fact that life is so rare in your work makes it seem as special as life should out in the black.
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Thanks! The thing about plants has two causes:
1-I don't know how to paint jungles or forests, and little isolated plants are much more easier to mesh into the terrain and have much simpler shadows.
2-All the things about the abiotic nature and the beauty of the mineral world I told you about. I don't want my plants to eat and hide the rocks and sand.
But I think that, even if I were able to create jungles, I would still paint desert and desertic vegetation, and beaches too. After all it's the only landscape I really know and love. I have been to coniferous forests and they are cool and beautiful, but I don't feel that visceral yearning to paint them, nor I see them in my visions.
The desert plants and landscape are very alien, indeed. You don't need much imagination to see how they would fit on other planets.
I think life it's indeed very rare in the universe. And so sparse too. For all practical purposes, perhaps most living planetary systems could be alone in the universe. The universe it's so mind-blowingly huge, so dark and so cold even with its billion trillon stars shining. Life, even with its capacity for exponential growth, it's a very small thing indeed.
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