Emerging by Chipka
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
The descent of autumn marks itself, as always, with the spiraling fall of leaves from The Grove; they turn from green, to yellow, to red, and at last, to brown before the winds take their leathery corpses and blow them into corners and to the feet of the city’s great walls. The city’s homeless may claim a leaf or two (each the size of a child’s blanket) and fashion them into crude, but effective shelter. Municipal rakers gather them for the bonfire heaps out past Fisherhouse Street.
Belam, in walking from the shadowed interior of his apartment lobby, does not take notice of the leaves. A few have blown across the wide, pebbly expanse of pavement before his paint-flaking building. He has other concerns. Far from home, but still within the city. He emerges, as always, casual in his indifference. It is nothing to him that his apartment occupies the husk of an ancient, wooden wall: Taramin’s Wall, as history books might call it. Few know Taramin or his legacy. Few care. In some ways, Taramin is like the leaves blown through the city. Far from Belam’s concerns, and soon forgotten….
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Whether there will be more to this or not, I cannot say. All I know is that there’s a guy named Belam. He lives in an apartment carved into the body of an ancient, improbably wooden wall. He has somewhere to go, and he’ll probably get there on foot. If this manipulated quasi-photo is any indication, he will get there to the sound of sole-slapping sandals. If he decides to tell me where he’s going and what his life is like, I’ll write it down. But until then…here is an image…of a wooden door with windows in it…a wooden door found in Chicago’s gallery district. It marks the northern face of the building in which I work. I suspect it’s the door to a storage facility of sorts, a double-wooden door without a contemporary function. It’s little more than an architectural doodle now…but the pain on it flakes in the most appealing of ways.
As always, thank you for viewing, reading, and commenting, and I hope you’re all having a great week.
Comments (34)
I like this surreal creation.:)
This is to be viewed and read on the surrealistic pillow under a half-full moon
WOW. Amazing!
did a cool job on this image. had to look two times lol
Outstanding narrative and photo manipulation!
It looks like a giant tree house ... an adorable idea ....with and in nature life. This idea is GREAT!!
I red your words...very interesting.....perfect manipulation.....BTW I LOVE AUTUMN LEAVES...
Brilliant work!
Wow, this is well, awesome!! It's also very trippy, like it melted or something. Whatever you did worked very well!!
Surreal look - will we live in the trees again sometimes?
I love what you've done with this! It looks outstanding. I love the idea of apartments inside an old wall. Aside from this guy's life, I also want to know more about the windows in the apartment complex ... they're reflecting the same thing, over and over again, without variation. Now I know how you did that as an artist, but as a story line it's a fascinating idea! Reflections again ... Mmmm-hmmm.
Freaking unbelievable! Outstanding work.
Very tricky mate!
Of course it looks like he was lucky to escape from the building!
Outstanding job on this!!!
Wild........
Ooh, very nicely done! I can see it's a door after you explained it, but it works so well as your story anchor apartment...clever!
Amazing work my friend. God Bless.
fantastic work
Fantastically creative work. The wall texture really jumps out & screams for your immediate attention, but there's a lot more going on here, as if it were a single frame from a visionary sci-fi film...
Very creative use of the paint chiped doors in shaping this image of wonder.
FANTASTIC WORK! GREAT IMAGE!
WOW! I didnt believe my eyes here. I am glad I didnt, but I had to look a long time, before I let myself read your explanation LOL. Superb work Chip
This is nicely trippy. I saw you putting this together and I must say you did a great job. Now I'm going to stare at it a bit longer and try not to have some kind of flashback. Coooooooool.
excellent !
Very surreal idea, indeed. Bravo.
Beautiful effect and mood.
Interesting urban scenery. Well seen!
Intriguing prelude to a larger story and world. This Taramin must have been some great person of antiquity. Inspiration for may great and perhaps unusual works art, planning and engineering down through the generations. But then a revolution (perhaps centuries ago), a new order and a new perspective. Taramin's legacy falls out of favour, his name no longer applied to new achievements and old ones are left to decay. A fate akin to Dunce - well Duns Scotus. Your wall does seem to have suffered similar neglect as Taramin's, perhaps those who originally built it are no longer in favour in Chicago politics. It any case, it is still an imposing and enduring artiface which speaks volumes to Taramin's determination to out endure is detractors. It's a shame Belam does not keep these things in mind.
The texture on that building is really quite incredible. May I copy the image and capture that texture for use in the Bryce texture library?