Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistRandall Klopping CollectionSciFi
Description While visiting the world known as Zaellah on the far side of the Sombrero galaxy, I had heard stories told of the path to the underworld, described as flaming red gate opening every thirteen years near a star at the center of a small open cluster of yellow Sol like stars. The more I listened to the tales the more I suspected that the legends might be referring to some kind of wormhole and I wanted to seek it out.It took a lot of searching, often hailing ships traveling throughout the region to pick up a clue here, a scrap of rumor there. It turned out to be quite the challenge! Most of the races treated the subject with fear and superstition, hesitant to even talk about it as none of their explorers who had sought it out had ever returned. Till one day when I ran into a Cazzian freighter whose Captain told me of the loss of his first ship thirty-seven years ago. A break down had set him far behind schedule and he was of using the nearest star with the intent of attempting a sling shot maneuver. Just as he neared the star he said that some kind of phenomena had opened just behind his ship and nearly simultaneously the star before him exploded into an intense cycle of flare activity. He and only a third of his crew had survived, their ship floated dead in space for weeks another ship passing in the distance had detected their beacon.He didnt remember the actual coordinates but he pointed me in the right direction to narrow my search. I spent weeks cruising about the region hed pointed to on the star charts and then I found it. It nearly got me as well, for as I was passing close to one of the stars in this open cluster the wormhole suddenly erupted into normal space. My shields got a bit singed but I was lucky, unlike a nearby asteroid passing above the star. This artwork is primarily a fractal illusion with the most distant stars painted in.
Randall Klopping, Merced, CA Member Since June 2010 Artist Statement I am a disabled person with multiple disabilities working to build a life for myself. I offer a truly unique style of art, weaving my illusions of the universe with fractals and occasionally a bit of digital painting. I hope that my work will find a home on your wall and inspire your imagination.
I apologize that I cannot respond to all peoples comments but with this economy I have not been able to earn much from my art and now the friend who was able to help me over the years is unemployed and I will no longer have internet access. I will try to find a way to once a month or so to use the library's computers to read your comments, but I can't sit or stand for long periods so won't be able to respond much. I like hearing what others think. The cuts that California have done to disabled people's benefits have left me at a point where I can no longer work to try to market my work, so any help people can give letting others know about it so that perhaps I can still earn some money from the works I've gotten up here.