"Carbon Based Lifeform" - 70x100cm - Linocut Print [OC] - eviltoast

Hand printed & hand carved linoprint. Occult/Sci-fi inspired work about exobiology.

  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Can you explain all the various representations? There’s a few I recognize, a few I can guess at and still more that I don’t even know where to start.

    • Julien Catanese@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      it is a mixture of abstract elements with occult/sci-fi connotations and scientific diagrams or more figurative or symbolic elements. there are elements relating to cosmology, astronomy, topography/geology. the element carbon, its simplified atomic model. a molecule of “chnops” the building blocks of life, a representation of bacterial life and various abstract elements. everything arranged in such a way as to have a homogeneous and graphically coherent egnimatic whole.