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Almost finished with this sucker! All I have left is the texturing and the lighting. =D
Hold up, because is this is the best use of the stained glass fanart device I’ve ever seen and I wanna Art Appreciation on it for a moment.
Normally I’m pretty meh on these when it comes to anything beyond technical skill, because most of the time it’s just a particular look overlaid on a subject, and the ~meaning of the forms~ are kinda forced at best. NOT SO HERE. This is so rich in symbolism and aligned so well!!! Like look at the crew along the bottom — each carries over their ready-made Starfleet emblem from TOS denoting their division, which even fits the gothic arch shape, and are lit-er-ally manifesting via transporter beams, in a perfect sci-fi answer to our prayers that our holy heroes would appear to help us.
And then, y’know, just, LITERAL ICONS of the cultural pantheon, and secular saints of frankly a pretty dang functional belief system. A legit inspirational piece of art that I feel #blessed to have seen. Thank you OP for renewing my faith in the genre.
The Millennium Muses
Written back in May of 2015, this is how I imagined artists would invent muses for modern endeavors.
Whenever I’ve read The Name of the Rose (I am reading The Name of the Rose), I feel like I ~know~ what is meant by “lemures”, although I’d have been hard pressed to come up with something more concrete than “dead-like, shades, not good, big eyes? creepers.”
This time I finally looked them up, and I was not wrong but didn’t even know the fabulous dreadful ghostly half of it.
In other news
this remains one of the honest best books I’ve ever read.
‘Beginning and end’ is a pairing that represents the whole scope of history and time. ‘Alpha and Omega’ stretches from the first letter of the alphabet to the last, representing the whole alphabet in one swoop by referring to its extremities.
‘From head to toe’, ‘from top to bottom’, and ‘from cradle to grave’ all denote a spectrum through the use of pairs considered to be extremities of that spectrum. Take for example Genesis 1.1: God creates the ‘heaven and earth’, i.e. everything. Or even the phrase ‘there was evening and there was morning’, signifying the passing of a whole day.
Now return to Genesis 1.27: ‘male and female [God] created them’. Male and female. I think you can all see what I’m probably getting at here. The ‘and’ is not a binary ‘and’. Male and female can disclose a spectrum of varied gender identities in the same way that ‘Alpha and Omega’ discloses the whole alphabet, or how ‘from head to toe’ means the length of the whole body.
Queer Theologian Alan Hooker on Binaries (via bialogue-group)
