The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
-- Douglas Adams
Yesterday I posted the second version of my Nonplanetary Landscape series, a concept based on the idea of a planet of a non-spherical shape. This first version was wrapped around a torus knot which is seen from an extreme wide angle perspective.
Nonplanetary Landscape, 2002
Acrylic/oil on fiberboard
40 x 30 cm / 15.75 x 11.81 in
Private collection / Austria
This Torus knot was the geometry I used for the painting:
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