6. February, 2024 - Reading time 3 min.

Hello out there!

Anyone remembers Isaac Asimovs Gods themselves and the Electron pump? I find this concept of incomprehensible otherworldly just fascinating. How are we supposed to imagine how any hypothecial world is supposed to look like if we can´t even understand their basic physical principles? Yeah, that´s where concept art comes to play!

I have been always very irritated by tasteless paperpack covers of the old-school sci-fi literature. It was always very unimaginative and somehow dorky and just super weird. It really took artists like Ridley Scott, James Cameron who raised the sci-fi genre out of its visual infancy. I have my reservations towards the aesthetical qualities of the work of George Lucas. His tendency towards frog shaped blobs simply always prevented my permanent interest in his work. But he´s been there at the beginning, noone can ever take away from him. But! There is but! Consider the release date difference between Star Wars episode IV 1977 and Alien 1979. Ridley´s work has been perhaps shown 2 years later but the aesthetical ladder achieved has shown a difference of at least a decade if not more. And this visionary mind means everything to me.

Imagining what might happen if we´ll ever reach technological level to produce a detailed imagery of the distant exoplanets? Well Mark has some ideas. Let´s have a look at some of his artworks showing what we might discover if we are lucky in allocating a technologically developed civilisation! The idea of this blog article is to postulate architectural or archeological premises for such a discovery. We manage to geo-sonar a strange geomagnetic anomaly on our Moon? Who knows, maybe it´s not that far off for us to discover something similar on Mars or on any reachable Exoplanet. And those anomaly’s might be next time as well just some deeply buried remnant ruins.

Keep imagining!

Peter Von Hauerland, MA of Arts, Inspired by Universe

Backround & featured artworks: Mark Zhang, X handle: @markzhangart, Concept Designer