I sometimes make very elaborate digital paintings that are meant to be shown as big prints on canvas (big meaning 6 or 7 feet wide). Unfortunately, that makes them pretty hard to share on social media. To get around the limitations of people's phones and laptops, I'll post a few zoomed-in "details."
Here's one of them - from a piece I've been working on for about 20 years called "When He Becomes the Creator, Will He Let Us Exist?" Here we see the star of the piece, the "Creator," up to His ass in the Pond of Possibility. In His left hand He holds a metal censer from which emits "idea gas." This gas seeds the miasmic airs of the Underconscious, causing creative fogs to condense and trickle into the Pond. In His right hand is His ceremonial paintbrush, which He waves in the air like a conductor, willing different scenes and scenarios into existence.
Like all of my "fine art," this piece is based on a "found" image. In this case it's an old illustration I came across many years ago of some geologists looking at the inside of a gigantic volcanic caldera, in either Hawaii or Yellowstone, I forget. I'll post the source below, as well as an uncropped version of the whole painting for comparison.
As a final little note, the title is taken from the great old X-Ray Spex song "Genetic Engineering". RIP Polly.
