Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Visual Arts and Space


I love to come across a website that has fantastic creative images having to do with space or fictional worlds. Spaceart.org has a pleasant variety of images that let your imagination run wild. I love to ponder an intricate image that allows my mind to imagine what kind of world are we looking at, what kind of beings live there and what is the environment like. I try to follow the example of David Grinspoon in his book "Lonely Planets A Natural Philosophy of Alien Life," and I try not to inject my own perceptions of what alien life may be like on another world. What I think may be true in terms of gravity or air or even how alien life might even exist in communities will probably be beyond what I could know. Visual art can get my imagination going that easily! I can also appreciate the time involved in creating each image and the painstaking detail it takes to create a painting, print, or sculpture.
The site is well worth browsing through.

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