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My brain works in strange ways.

When I was a kid (about three to five) I was a hardcore astronomy geek. I also had an audio cassette (Yes I grew up in the nineties) of an album called "the Planets". I can't quite remember the artist, but each of the weird electronic/instrumental songs was inspired in a planet, or at least their esoteric "essence". I loved that album, and I used to imagine the wonders of each world while I listened.

Fast forward a few years, when I was about 8 or 9 my dad bought the album "Mutter" by Rammstein, and I saw again the mental pictures of the planets, with the additional benefit that, by that age, I was -sort of- capable of expressing them through drawings. Each song corresponded to a planet, and it took me various repeats of the album to draw them all. I retrospective those drawings are LAME... I still have them somewhere... but at the time, that ability to form and draw mental pictures from what I listened became quite the discovery for me. Succesive albums by Rammstein corresponded so well with what I imagined that it became a sport for me every time a new album appeared in my house. After a few years I did succesively Sehnsucht, Reise Reise and Rosenrot... each spawned like three or four iterations of my mental pictures on the planets, that evolved from simple glyph-like doodles, to semi-mechanical creatures and fantastic spherical aliens inspired in the information I had on the appearence and characteristics of the entities in the solar system, as well as the tone and feel of the songs.

My last iteration on these "spirits" was made almost 10 years ago. I figured that after so much time and all the new things that I've learned since 2005 it would be cool to revisit these concepts and improve them. A while ago I did some sketches based this time not in music, but in the physical, astronomical and occult characteristics of the Planets.

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04 - MARS
· the Corpse ·

Yaaay! a dead thing!

After all that life and colour, I had a lot of fun doing this one. Mars is a weird antithesis of Venus; both are dead, hostile worlds. But while Venus is an active hell, Mars is kind of a frozen one. It's a well known fact that Mars once supported a lot of water and had an Earthlike climate, but it's small size and the loss of atmosphere and magnetic fields have made it a mere husk of a planet. I wanted to reflect that "once alive" theme, so I took some samples from mummy eye sockets, Cordyceps fungi and a dried octopus. I'm particularyly happy with the way Phobos looks!!

In the context of the Planetary Spirits, dead does not mean "non existent". you could think of it as a "ghost" archetype, someone that remembers the past, and acts as a record keeper, but it's kinda forever locked in there, incapable of relating to the present.

Some say every thing we create is a sort of self portrait. or at least, a partial one. And I must agree... I do love my empty, mummy eye sockets,

Description
My brain works in strange ways.

When I was a kid (about three to five) I was a hardcore astronomy geek. I also had an audio cassette (Yes I grew up in the nineties) of an album called "the Planets". I can't quite remember the artist, but each of the weird electronic/instrumental songs was inspired in a planet, or at least their esoteric "essence". I loved that album, and I used to imagine the wonders of each world while I listened.

Fast forward a few years, when I was about 8 or 9 my dad bought the album "Mutter" by Rammstein, and I saw again the mental pictures of the planets, with the additional benefit that, by that age, I was -sort of- capable of expressing them through drawings. Each song corresponded to a planet, and it took me various repeats of the album to draw them all. I retrospective those drawings are LAME... I still have them somewhere... but at the time, that ability to form and draw mental pictures from what I listened became quite the discovery for me. Succesive albums by Rammstein corresponded so well with what I imagined that it became a sport for me every time a new album appeared in my house. After a few years I did succesively Sehnsucht, Reise Reise and Rosenrot... each spawned like three or four iterations of my mental pictures on the planets, that evolved from simple glyph-like doodles, to semi-mechanical creatures and fantastic spherical aliens inspired in the information I had on the appearence and characteristics of the entities in the solar system, as well as the tone and feel of the songs.

My last iteration on these "spirits" was made almost 10 years ago. I figured that after so much time and all the new things that I've learned since 2005 it would be cool to revisit these concepts and improve them. A while ago I did some sketches based this time not in music, but in the physical, astronomical and occult characteristics of the Planets.

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04 - MARS
· the Corpse ·

Yaaay! a dead thing!

After all that life and colour, I had a lot of fun doing this one. Mars is a weird antithesis of Venus; both are dead, hostile worlds. But while Venus is an active hell, Mars is kind of a frozen one. It's a well known fact that Mars once supported a lot of water and had an Earthlike climate, but it's small size and the loss of atmosphere and magnetic fields have made it a mere husk of a planet. I wanted to reflect that "once alive" theme, so I took some samples from mummy eye sockets, Cordyceps fungi and a dried octopus. I'm particularyly happy with the way Phobos looks!!

In the context of the Planetary Spirits, dead does not mean "non existent". you could think of it as a "ghost" archetype, someone that remembers the past, and acts as a record keeper, but it's kinda forever locked in there, incapable of relating to the present.

Some say every thing we create is a sort of self portrait. or at least, a partial one. And I must agree... I do love my empty, mummy eye sockets,