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100 Pictures Challenge #7: Heaven. Interpret as you will.

I actually started this in black & white as a possible "base" for collaborating with a friend. But for some reason, when I started painting in the bright spot, the phrase, "where none may follow" started running around in circles in my head, and I knew I had to do a finished version on my own. And then last night I remember just *where* the phrase came from: Arthur Clarke's The City and the Stars: "Within a very short period of time our ancestors and their fellow-races had gone upon a journey which we cannot follow." Whoops. Guess my memory's not what it used to be

Anyway, the book ends with a really good passage that (although it has nothing to do with this picture!) I'd like to share, because Clarke's made of awesomeness:

In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again
Now I need to go do another base for real.

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100 Pictures Challenge #7: Heaven. Interpret as you will.

I actually started this in black & white as a possible "base" for collaborating with a friend. But for some reason, when I started painting in the bright spot, the phrase, "where none may follow" started running around in circles in my head, and I knew I had to do a finished version on my own. And then last night I remember just *where* the phrase came from: Arthur Clarke's The City and the Stars: "Within a very short period of time our ancestors and their fellow-races had gone upon a journey which we cannot follow." Whoops. Guess my memory's not what it used to be

Anyway, the book ends with a really good passage that (although it has nothing to do with this picture!) I'd like to share, because Clarke's made of awesomeness:

In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again
Now I need to go do another base for real.