The Sleeping Beast
- THE SLEEPING BEAST - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size coquille board.
When I came to drawing the starry background for this picture I thought about making it more interesting than just showing the stars as typical white dots, with or without halos.
I started thinking about the spaceship's drive system and it soon occurred to me that it could not be rocket propelled because of the distances between stars; It is so great that even traveling at the speed of light would not be fast enough to be practical, it would take too long to reach even the nearest star.
And so I thought, the problem is obviously, "time". The spaceship's drive system would have to deal with shortening the space-time factor between it and it's destination in deep space. I decided to draw some flashing lines in space to represent a "folding" of time in order to travel from one point in space to another; think of a large sheet of black paper filled with tiny white dots as stars scattered all over it. Your spaceship is near a star on one end of the sheet and you want to get to a star on the other end. You don't move your spaceship along the surface of the paper to get there, you fold the paper so that the other end of the sheet is near you and you jump across the small space to get to the other star.
Whenever I draw an illustration for a science fiction story I know that the reader will have no idea of what went through my mind when I drew it. But that's OK, I am free to think wild and crazy things, and you can look at my drawings and do the same. I doubt, however, if you understood what my purpose was in drawing the celestial sky the way I did. Or did you?
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