“I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore”

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The Notion of parallel universes is nothing new……..

The theme has long been the staple fodder of countless excursions within literature, film, art and music. The works of C.S.Lewis and H.P.Lovecraft, the countless movie and television treatments on the theme, Back To The Future, The Twilight Zone and probably most famous of all, The Wizard of Oz. As far as inspiration goes for creative material it does not get much better. The absurd..the impossible..the extraordinary, it all has a place and home within these speculations of what actually exists in the alternate realms. Maybe a mirror self did marry the ‘one that got away’…England are the reigning champions of world football (fat chance) and pigs do fly (a better bet!)

Scientists believe there may be an infinite number of parallel worlds, and we just happen to live in one of them (some may speculate we were given one of the galactic short straws when it came to who inhabits what dimension.) Incredibly it is thought that these ‘other’ universes exist less than a millimetre away from us, and that our gravity is a weak signal leaking out of another universe into ours.

A few weeks back I got talking about this whole ‘other worlds’ thing when a family friend was showing me some pictures he took on his camera phone of his 12 year old son at the airport.

Liam has a healthy interest in this theory so with that in mind and the pictures of him at the airport as reference I duly designed a digital painting of him and his mirror personas in a typically sci-fi setting. The flying goldfish and the lone rhino in an urban setting were my subtle nods to the absurd. Oh and if you look on the machinery up top I managed to slip Liams name in as a manufacturers logo.

Time for me to go lay down …all this thought of other worlds has left me disorientated.

I will however leave you with the majestic ‘Waxified’ by Merlune & Daakoon which incidentally has a rather excellent sample of Dorothy from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ within it…

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If anyone is interested in commissioning a custom painting from their own photographs give me a call and I will be more than happy to discuss any ideas you may have. Contact me through the ‘contact’ button to the left of your screen or mail me at……………………. maclarensteph@gmail.com

Thanks!