heaven and earth book

Far beyond the range of the naked human eye exists a realm of growth and symmetry that possesses almost haunting beauty. Microscopes and telescopes can plow this realm, revealing stars too far or particles too small for us to see. Magnified 115 times, kettle limescale blooms in flowerlike clusters. A single pollen grain magnified 5,000 times resembles a beehive fortress and, enlarged and reenlarged, a butterfly wing takes on the aspect of a field of warrior's shields. The Hubble Space Telescope captures the pillars of gas and dust of the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light-years away. In awesome color photographs, Heaven & Earth presents the universe in a grain of sand and on a scale almost beyond imagination.

 this book seems to have teh same veiw on micro macro looking at the beauty and detail in the very big and very small

rock formations

here are some of the images that led me on to the idea of earth being stranger than fiction you don't get crazy rock formations on other planets as far as we know these is the type of phenomenon that sci-fi artists would be re imagining to envision alien planets you just can't make it up.

mars

i would like to maybe do a few paintings as if stitched together digitally like this i love how messed up it is from sheer distance the data has to travel to earth

another awesome picture of Mars would like to incorporate textures like the ones seen on the surface in my own paintings.

Magic Eye

I always think magic eye looks like some kind of static from some gamma rays or something the static you get on your T.V. is residual radiation from the big bang I did end up using these patterns to describe some sort of sonic or psychic interference by collaging it into my painting buy im not going to show it in the exhibition its not very good worth another try though

I might make the focus of this project alien landscapes with a lot of influence from surrealist painters likse Dali and Max Ernst. I want to intergrate elements of Micro/ Macro in theses scapes using textures

Richard Powers' Sci-Fi covers remind me of Miro, Max Ernst and lots of other surrealist painters

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2008/06/cool-50s-sci-fi-covers-by-powers.html

Art Forms in Nature - Ernst Haeckel

these are a few scans taken  from "Art Forms in Nature - Ernst Haeckel" (Prestel Verlag. 2004)  they touch on some of the ideas I had on fractals and outher points i hope to include in my statement.

supernova

there is a painting by Chris Foss called 'stars like dust' (seen in late post) that perfectly sums up these images the universe exists on such an insane scale stars can look like there just a piece of debris i also like how the image seen above of a super nova looks like a close up of the coloured part of the eye ill try find these photos I'm talking about because the details is really uncanny i want to try and get some sort of space dust look going in my own work.

research into formations

inspirations and idias behind title deep sea creatures that have evolved iridescence and strobing lights to entice pray i like how they are see-through but seem to have a glowing edge i can recreate this with acrylic and have used it in the sky

(http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/gallery_marine_species/all/1)