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. ArtistRudy Rucker CollectionPaintings
Description Acrylic on canvas, 19' x 38', August, 2007.
This painting grew out of an en plein air session on St. Josephs Hill with my painter friend Vernon Head. Theres a big oak tree growing at the edge of a drop-off; although it looks a bit unstable, Ive been visiting it for twenty years. I like the tree a lot, and I like how I can see some of the roots exposed in the gully wall.
I filled the sky with Zhabotinsky scrolls and got the tree done pretty quickly, but then the dirt wall was looking dull. So I covered it with little critters; I was thinking of them as nanomachines, which infest the Earth in my novel Postsingular, which precedes my novel Hylozoic (the central panel of the triptych).
Those birds dancing around the fire underground are sinister subdimensional beings called subbies. In Postsingular, they actually try to eat my character Thuy; you can see her uneasily looking down at them.
Rudy Rucker, Los Gatos, California Member Since February 2007 Artist Statement Rudy Rucker is a well-known novelist and popular science writer who paints surreal or abstract scenes that sometimes relate to incidents in his books. He's been painting since the year 2000. His paintings are popular, and he's sold about a hundred and twenty of them.
See his paintings page
https://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
For info on the individual pictures, see his online catalog
https://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings/rucker_paintings_catalog_scroll.pdf
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Catalog Details Product No 651460 Subjects StyleSurrealism Medium TagsRucker, Rudy