The Rays Are Chasing Me
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 -- by Dr. Faustus
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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