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Published: 2015-06-26 12:07:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 2918; Favourites: 101; Downloads: 0
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art for the 'Zodiak: Divinity' board game. Moroz Publishing.more: dartgarry.deviantart.com/galle…
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Nagrill [2015-06-26 18:37:16 +0000 UTC]
Wow..... this is amazing.
looks like someone got inspired by the story of jason and the argonauts
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Gareth-Brent-Hughes [2015-06-26 12:18:37 +0000 UTC]
the medieval times do not exist in a readily graspable history of recent and shared experience but have become such a fnatasy zone that increasingly they can be conveyed in terms of colour forms and composition with no relevance to a tangible "original" of the time or setting itself
Electric blue rivers are conducted by a sort of luminescent magic that is closer to the modern LED than "native" conceptions of magic in the middle ages - the knights, themselves charged into this current like nodes connected to a current no longer contain people but become pure surfaces, their life coming from the external power source of the blue not an inner "human" original, which no longer exists. they are robotic, sci-fi in nature.
Above all the dragon skull, an artifact of a monster which never existed in the middle ages but has magically appeared in the modern age through the discovery and reconstruction of fossils, seldom seen in medieval times and taken to be geological formations. with the lack of space on the earth to colonize, the modern man has invented a sort of time-travel through paleontology to colonize the imaginary world of prehistory, where the dragons dreamt of in the middle ages come to life through the paradoxical proof of their demise.
The dragon skull then is a fossil from the future which acts as an immediate visual key to the non-existence of time and space in the image, (and the imagined world of medieval/fantasy europe) which is further reinforced by the lack of background, and the superimposition over the image of a circle, reminding us of the flatness of the image, it's lack of link to any reference point but the plane of a screen, it's coordinates grounded in no identifiable reality but that of windows opening and closing on a translucent screen.
Overall this is a really remarkable image that absolutely bursts with immediate sensation! i love it
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DartGarry In reply to Gareth-Brent-Hughes [2015-06-26 15:32:36 +0000 UTC]
wow
this is the biggest comment that I have ever got 0_о
Very interesting opinion
thanks a lot! and you are welcome
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