The Rays Are Chasing Me
Browsing through a volume on my shelf recently called Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques I came across the following splended tribute to Botticelli by San Francisco artist Jason Chan:
Two women watching a third, newly-made, emerge from some sort of apparatus under the direction of some kind of scientist, possibly a mad one. The painting is entitled, “Birth of Venus.” I had never seen it before (that I could recall, anyway), but it Chan did it as a cover of Imagine FX in June 2007.
And I got this uncanny feeling, because in 2008 I had written a work of experimental fiction that included, among other things, an implied scene in which two women watched a third, newly-made (recreated, actually) emerge from some sort of apparatus under the direction of some kind of scientist, possibly a mad one. The scientist character referred to she-who-emerged as a Venus.
Naturally intrigued, I surfed over to Jason Chan’s site and found over there quite a lot of pretty stuff to look at (and recommend you go there and look too). The painting that struck my eye was this:
A raven-haired woman in the (possibly amorous) embrace of a tentacled beastie. The pulling-off of the shoulder strap of our heroine’s garment by the tip of one of the beastie’s tentacles is a detail insisted upon by the artist.
And later in the same piece I wrote a scene in which a raven-haired woman found herself in the (pretty definitely amorous) embrace of a tentacled beastie. The pulling-off of the shoulder-strap of our heroine’s garment by the tip of one of the beastie’s tentacles was a detail duly insisted upon by the author.
I could swear I never saw this painting before putting fingers to keyboard, either.
My uncanny if hardly unpleasant viewing experiences occasioned the following exchange between me and Bacchus.
Me: “Who is this Jason Chan guy, and how did he hack my brain back in 2007?”
Bacchus: “Dude, you obviously forgot to wear your tinfoil helmet!”
Me: “Dude, if I wore a tinfoil helmet, how would I pick up all the interesting transmissions?”
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Re: the first picture….
Now we know where the inspiration for the regeneration chamber and the hybrids aboard the Cylon base ships in the new Battlestar Galactica came from.
Am i just imagining or does the device from which one of the girl seems to be emerging from looks like a vagina complete with labia minora, labia majora ?
oooh, good catch Crazyphilo, I think I even spy a clitorus up there, and the base of the opening is somewhat wider than the top
….and the cables? Strings of mucus maybe?
The first piece, the tribute to Botticelli, does that remind anyone else of the Excessive Machine from Barbarella??
I love it when that happens. I once had a friend who painted another friend years before meeting her.
@ Biley – the cables – hair perhaps ?