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Lingering in the Golden Gleam
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Note: this image is for sale as NFT at knownorigin.io/gallery/8106000…
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My images about the future are normally optimistic. This one has perhaps a mixed feeling, depending on your interpretation.
The titles comes from a poem by Lewis Carrol. It seemed appropriate.
This was, as always, rendered in Vue.
I like to use sand in my images. Here are some where sand takes an important part of the composition:
EDIT: wow, a DD! Thanks a lot to UJz for suggesting it and MoonBeam13 for featuring it. This is my 9th DD.
EDIT: please visit dandylion0505 and read his poems. If you follow my images, you'll understand why. Amazing...
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This piece of art offers a deeper sense of expansive land as well as show's a huge portion of depth in the area based on what's being shown. It's very hard I think to think of the best way to interpret this because there is so much here telling a story it's so impossible to think of the best way to tell it.
The stranger at the bottom of the image is maybe coming home after a long journey or maybe he has found sanctuary in this palace that is probably a temple or some religious building in some form or another so the possibilities are rather endless, as in so much science fiction art it's so hard to imagine what's the best way to tell the story visually. Seeing as though the title of this comes from a Lewis Carrol poem maybe the meaning could come from that.
The piece itself is well made, the palace is well modeled and the sandscape is excellent, almost giving off the puddle reflections from the castle and the colors of the sky are lovely to look at alongside the planet in the sky.
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She sat upon a sea of silver, bathed with a golden light, and all under the ever watchful eye of the great moon of Bella Nox.
They were a blessed people, those who dwelt in the city of light. Spires of white marble trimmed with gold sprung up from the fertile soil of the Isle of the silver sea. For five thousand years these people, these serenely tranquil and gracious people and their luminous city knew nothing but the prosperity of a warless land.
Under the ever watchful eye of their glittering sister city on Bella Nox the good people basked in the warmth of their city.
But onto all lands, even one as tranquil as these a serpent may enter.
Envy slithered and slunk into the hearts of those upon Bella Nox.
Envy of their silver sea and their towers of white.
An envy that festered and grew like a monstrous all consuming cancer, an envy that twisted and turned in a dark and terrible hate, a hate that would bud forth that poisonous ruinous weed called war...
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Another fascinating window into your imagination. This one has a different feel from the previous ones. First, it catches the hint from the title and focus on a character that is not visible in the image itself, which gives the story (and the image) a completely new dimension that was before a mere hint. Second, it ends in a somewhat dark note, unlike your previous stories, mirroring what I had in my mind when making the image.
Fantastic... Many thanks for sharing.
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Somehow this reminds me of Mont Saint-Michel, if more exotic.
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I had to google it. I had seen it before, a long time ago, just didn't know the name. Yes, you are right, it's a somewhat similar concept. Thanks!
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It looks like the water is also sand, at the same time. QuQ
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I tried to make a smooth gradient between both materials so that it's not always obvious where one ends and the other starts.
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I say that you did a good job! It's mesmerizing... Q^Q
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Thank you, I'm honored. That statement made my day.
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You're just as good at creating sci-fi wonder as Ralph McQuarrie in his Star Wars art
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Thanks but you're too kind.
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We are approaching, this is the First of Alien Life
surely we have been Searching for so long Now to Earth We are the Ancients I check in the Mirror I still look as I did the Day I left. Were anyone to believe I am Ancient. Ancient beyond belief Someone said it Best a Thousand times Ten Thousand and Thousands of Thousands. If at Last I am ready to find the Truth it will have Been worth the Search. We Press Forward.
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That is amazing.
Thank you so much for sharing.
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Thank you for your Vision.
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Really amzing beauty !
Can I use it in my amateurfilm; its a SF story, working on it already 1,5 years.
Thanks if positive, will mention your name.
Philip
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Thanks!
What is the theme of your story? Is there any violence, religion or pseudo-sciences (astrology, etc) in it?
Is your film for commercial purposes or just as a hobby?
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Wonderful Artwork- and great Galery - best regards
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I love the future-spacey environment, and the pattern of light on the water is beautiful!
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This is probably one of the most genuinely depressing pieces I've seen in all my eight years on this site, and definitely one of the most depressing things I've seen in recent memory.
No matter how I look at this, I always get the impression that this world is dying; hell, even the very oceans themselves are drying up. Yet, this solitary metropolis stands in the center of a dead sea. It doesn't look at all neglected or abandoned, in fact, I'd go so far as to say it looks -pristine-. It looks almost defiant, as if the people there are desperately trying to hold on to the way things are -- or rather how they used to be.
Then, there is the lone figure in the center. It is impossible to tell if they are going to or leaving the metropolis, but neither are very optimistic. Are they looking for the last fading bastion of hope amidst the sea of absolute nothing? Or have they, and they alone, come to accept that nothing can change the inevitable or delay the ultimate end of all things?
As for the ships buzzing around in the sky, none of them look as though they're going to or leaving the metropolis, further strengthened by the glowing pattern on the moon. Another civilization, maybe? Perhaps this single monolith -- standing in a literal sea of nothing -- is really the last, lingering remnant of a world that was. Left behind while all the rest move on. Perhaps, perhaps not. Regardless, it may not be the end of the world just yet, but you can definitely see it on the horizon.
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Fascinating comment. Thanks a lot for sharing it. Especially these sentences below are an incredible insight into my mind and an almost perfect verbalization of my own ideas when imagining the concept:
"Yet, this solitary metropolis [...] looks almost defiant, as if the people there are desperately trying to hold on to the way things are -- or rather how they used to be."
"As for the ships buzzing around in the sky, none of them look as though they're going to or leaving the metropolis, further strengthened by the glowing pattern on the moon. Another civilization, maybe? Perhaps this single monolith -- standing in a literal sea of nothing -- is really the last, lingering remnant of a world that was. Left behind while all the rest move on. Perhaps, perhaps not. Regardless, it may not be the end of the world just yet, but you can definitely see it on the horizon."
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Your insight serves You Well. As Soon as Finals are over with and I have sufficiently Decompressed I hope to continue the Story. I Hope the Ending will justify Both the Effort and your Faith.
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OMG this is sooooo beautiful !!!!!!! it's like an ocean with sand or something? The castle looks amazing. I like your optimistic point about the futuristic images. We make always environments about destruction, with wars, and apocalyptic feeling. People loves drama xDDDD but this is great too.
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Wow! First I thought it was a science-fiction castle on an island surrounded by ocean, but then I spotted the adventurer on the dune, and I'm really impressed.
A sand desert covered with fresh water, with dunes exposed, and that really awesome moon in the sky... just, WOW!
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It's really beautiful.
I wonder what the figure is doing out there.... coming? Going? Maybe just waiting.
I'd kind of like to lie down on that sand and just linger in that golden gleam myself.
So lovely.
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Wonderful. This image (& several of your others too) have, in a sense, been incorporated here. Hope you enjoy. The Walker
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I left a comment in your poem and linked it back in the notes in this image.
Again, thank you!
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i have seen your comment: reading it gave me a shivering thrill, thank you. i am pleased to have been able to send back a little pleasure in ‘payment’ of the pleasure your images gave/give me … i’m honoured to have added something to your worlds.
it surely is the wonder of art that we can inspire each other with our visions.
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