Courtesy: Pirate Art Institute
I loved this painting the first time I saw it.
It was an illustration for a short story called; Ride to Live, Live to Ride. The story was about a biker who was a high-iron contractor doing orbital assembly, but ends up being a hero. It appeared about 20 years ago in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. I've long since lost
track of the issue, author and artist.
My brother Keith photographed and printed it for me. Some cleanup was done at the time with ink and brush. I had a grandios plan to screen print parts of it on layers of plexiglas, for a 3D effect. The back layer would've had the stars engraved and sandblasted into it. The stack would then be mounted in a deep frame and internally backlit and edgelit [fibreoptic].
More recently I scanned it and we digitally cleaned it up again and then added colors to the Grateful Dead logo.
Definitely not Deep Purple's best. I'm fond of 'Child in Time' myself.
ReplyDeleteThis was a post about art not music, but since you brought it up; Highway Star!
ReplyDeleteThe title was a last second decision, forgot who's song it was.
Hell Yeah! Highway Star is the Purp's best song ever.
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