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Published: 2014-10-11 15:23:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 4971; Favourites: 137; Downloads: 0
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June 2014.100x80 centimeters.Β
Semi-terraformed lunar landscape from the year 25,000.
The lunar soil has been oxidized and weathered by the new conditions, so it's no longer sharp and grey. This new Moon is still a dry and dusty world, and sandstorms are very frequent due to the low gravity, high atmospheric density (.5 atm) and the strong wind currents caused by the great temperature differential between the night and day sides (The lunar "day" lasts 2 Earth weeks, so the night side gets very cold and the day side very hot.)
Most of the surface is still desert and devoid of plant life, and the atmosphere is mainly nitrogen and carbon dioxide, without enough oxygen to sustain higher lifeforms.
There are no birds, no insects and no human voices: just the sound of the wind.
However, the terraformation will continue until the Moon becomes a sister world to Earth, a lush and beautiful garden of terraformed paradise where baseline-humans and animals will be able to walk and breath and live.
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That's right. The moon is being terraformed. It already has an atmosphere.
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So, that moon was completely different from today's moon?
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It WILL be, yes.Β
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Your Coloring and Details are Astonishing !
It could be a Perfect Scary or Action Area for Computer-GamesΒ
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Hope more people thinks that way. It would be GREAT to get paid creating conceptual art for games, or designing scenarios.Β
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I love the patterns on the lunar soil, it reminds me of wabi-sabi garden designs. Those clouds are a work of art in themselves, too!
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They are based on them, indeed!Β
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The year 30,000.Β Finally, someone who gives a realistic time frame for something which may happen in the future!Β "Terraforming the moon?Β Oh, we'll be there by 2025!"Β Riiiight...
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Well... mankind could have started earlier.Β
In my fictional timeline,Β current human civilization colapses sometime around the year 7000, and after that there is a brief period of barbarism followed by a very long period of low-tech civilizations rising, falling, and battling each other. It's not until the years 17,000 that mechanized industry and space travel are reinvented. And this painting is more or less 13,000 years after that.Β
So they have been terraforming for a period of 11 or 12 thousand years.
Complete terraforming doesn't happen until the year 40,000. Β
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Interesting.Β Thanks.Β Writing a novel based on this?
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Not really. It's just a story, a loose connection between some of my paintings about terraformed landscapes.Β
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I can't get enouph of your work, they're wonderful. The older piece, as someone else pointed out, has it's own appeal. They're both fantastic, enouph that they can stand in their own merit. Both Earths looks great, butΒ the original has an interesting and visually pleasing hazier effect, being more distant. This one has that wicked raging sandstorm. Awesome!
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Thank you very much for your kind comment, Christine.
Another great difference between them (Which I forgot to mention) is that the original measures more or less 50x36 centimeters and the remake it's my biggest painting to date: 110x75 centimeters. It's a very immersive experience when you look at it.
Best regards.Β
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This reminds me of the book series, The Darkangel.
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Oh, cool! I didn't knew about those books until now but they look neat.
This painting was inspired by a book, but none of the Darkangel trilogy. My book it's Stepen's Baxter "Moonseed". I wish I could contact him to show him this artwork...
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To be truthful I like the old one more. The technique is better, but the warm colors on the original appeal to me more. Furthermore the dust clouds looked "cooler", this is more dynamic and unsettling I would say. Also in version from the 2013 the small glow, especially on the north pole gave it a nice touch. Although this one have better terminator line, clourds and the reflection on the surface looks nice.
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Thanks for your opinion.
My intention on this painting was to make it look more unsettling and unfriendly to human life. I wanted to give the viewer some diffuse feeling of menace. Yes, the sky is blue and the sunlight is Earth-like, but this is still an alien and dangerous world. Something's not quite in place and you can feel it. It's a huge, strange, dry; empty and lonely world.Β
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Then You achieved Your goal, it feels like that. Maybe that's why last version appeal to me more, it's more friendly hehe
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It's more welcoming, yes. It's interesting how much colors can change the things, eh?
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I often wear yellow glasses, the ones for drivers. Everything look better while wearing them
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