The Space Swimmers 5
- SPACE SWIMMERS 5 - A black ink and gray pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper. It appears in the paperback, "The Space Swimmers," by Gordon R. Dickson, published by Ace, 1979
Now and then my struggle with a drawing was not with the figures and objects that I put in it, which were easily defined and juxtaposed, the difficulty was in filling the spaces between them.
The challenge for me in this drawing was working out the movement of the underwater patterns between these fighting men beneath the sea. And while I was creating those patterns I decided to add the two eels and the fish.
The human figures in scuba gear, the eels and the fish were easy to draw because they are known identities, shapes I am familiar with in the real world. The background patterns however, were pure creations that came out of my subconscious mind and I cannot explain how I made any of those wavy lines with dark and light shades except that I played with them until they looked "right" to me.
No one knows what motivates modern artists to create visual forms that come to them unexplainably. Paintings, sculptures, all coming from the subconscious mind, expressing nothing familiar, nothing for reason to analyze and understand. For them it must be an exciting challenge to seek the unknown from within.
Richard Powers' cover paintings for Ballantine's science fiction paperback books were primarily "modern art" achieved from his subconscious mind because they were mostly unfamiliar lines and shapes that gave viewers impressions of "unknown worlds". They were very effective.
Feel Free to add your Comments about this Artwork
Please do not abuse this feature or it will be removed, Keep it clean, keep it classy, keep it respectful