What do you see when viewing the image entitled “Moonlight in Cloud”, immediately above?
How do you feel when you view “The Inhabited Lights Engine” photograph, immediately above?
Moonlight and the Lights Engine
Author Archives: Matt The Unfathomable Artist
Displeased Sky with Radiant Sun
“Displeased Sky with Radiant Sun” [December 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with 3B and colour pencils signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digital image 3415 x 2835 pixels.
For “Displeased Sky with Radiant Sun” I decided to use colour pencils. Pressing hard upon the sky and waters. Vigorously working over seismic horizon trees and the hedge with seismic ‘M’ details lower left.
My drawing is very ‘mood’ orientated. Jupiter, Saturn and Venus feature visibly in the sky through part of December 2021.
An angry looking face appears surrounding one of the planets, barely visible in the original photograph.
This face is completely random chance.
Here is the photograph providing the inspiration for my colour drawing:
Here is a zoomed shot of the same image to reveal the visible planet:
The photograph is taken late afternoon between 1600hrs and 1700hrs UK GMT time on 2nd December 2021, facing towards the south, south south west.
Dusk had settled around the lake. A few walkers passed by, in the descending nightly darkness. One lady, quite unusually, stood nearby me as I took photographs from behind a latched gate post adjacent to the lake.
The unassuming lady produced her smartphone, proceeding to take self-same photographs of her own quickly. Returning to her walk within a minute or so.
Shielded Membrane
“Shielded Membrane”
Thoughts upon my coat of arms
My coat of arms
Shielded membrane, flexed for action,
Widened hands
Outstretched, outstretched,
Yonder to the Sun
Flaming fireball
Lights seen
Lights seen
——-
Have you ever read
scrolling depth charged Unfathomable?
thy mesh, thy honeycombs,
Impermeable, Impassable.
——-
I am the Alien
Did’st thou expect me?
thy Foreign Traveller
distance and time
Do you Art believe?
my journey, my journey,
thrice heavy
girded happy, carrying you,
not yet the half,
not yet the half.
——-
Thoughts upon my coat of arms
My coat of arms
Shielded membrane, flexed for action,
Widened hands
Outstretched, outstretched,
Yonder to the Sun
Flaming fireball
Lights seen
Lights seen
——-
Thoughts upon my coat of arms
My coat of arms
Shielded membrane, flexed for action,
Widened hands
Outstretched, outstretched,
Yonder to the Sun
Flaming fireball
Lights seen, lights seen,
Lights seen, lights seen.
- a song by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, copyright November 2021.
“these rains”
🎧 “these rains” video still version with audio, performed by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, 15th November 2021.
I thought it would be fun to include a handwritten version too:
“these rains” iron gall ink dip nib pen, first draft. Drops of rain can be seen as an idea on the canvas paper.
Untitled Photograph #1
I took this photograph at 1850hrs on 30th October 2021, whilst Jupiter and Saturn watched from afar, above the night skyline. A human-like shadow appears to cast a glow of itself, below the urban lights.
Here are photographs of the celestial sights to the South South East, South that evening:
1848hrs:
Photographed by me nearer to the urban lights whilst I stood upon the smooth concrete, at a junction. All light objects below the two central celestial bodies (shown in the image just above centre, centre-right) are manmade.
One celestial body is hardly discernible, without zooming for a close-up.
1851hrs:
This was photographed at 1851hrs, whilst I stood upon smooth concrete, further away from the urban lights pictured. Yet, standing near to where my original photograph was taken one minute earlier, entitled “Untitled Photograph #1”, urban lights without colour.
Here is a close-up of 1851hrs, shown immediately above:
To the imagination, this could resemble an alien face.
I hope you enjoy my photographic artworks.
The Curious Face in the Pond
For two weeks following the first draft of this sketch entitled “The Curious Face in the Pond”, the pond in the sketch became voidless.
Sketching, reworking, all to nothingness. Nations gathered to discuss the climate crisis. The face represents the realisation of Earth’s waters in Edvard Munch style.
Here is the inspiration for my artwork:
As you will see in the photograph there is much impressionism and a surrealist quality to my sketch. Some might regard this as ‘soul sketching’ or Surrealist-Impressionism. The ‘face’ in the pond is clearly an imaginary idea to explain the climate crisis in the context of a literal Nature Reserve.
The beautiful vegetation supporting the pond is somewhat aghast or perplexed at some of the strangely counter-productive large-scale industrial practices reaping havoc upon Earth’s climate. After posting this artwork on social media I wondered if I should create an artwork entitled ‘Rubbish Air and Rubbish Water on a Rubbish Manmade Planet Earth’.
I found this title satisfying, probably to lessen feelings we most all have watching Earth ‘mangle-mired’. That wrote, I actually thought, perhaps my sketch accomplishes that quite awful title.
Why? Well, I just couldn’t draw or sketch the pond. Technically, the pond water was greatly obscured for me to gain any reference to this in the sketch. Ultimately producing a strange, curious idea brought forward into my artwork.
“Proven ecological science must have the ability to directly quantify commercial policies.” – quotation by MΣ
Hope you enjoy my artwork 🙂
Lakescape in Moonlight
In this sketch the Moon shows Earth its own reflection. The tree to the left is landmass shaped as viewed from space. Carbon pencil filaments are sprinkled into the sky to explain the need for recycling materials. Farground trees look like mountains, we want them to be here forever.
Why are the mountains reflecting a fossil fuelled bleakness?
Here is the photograph inspiration for my sketch:
You will notice I have brought the perspective ever nearer. I love those photographs where the Moon is supermassive in the twilight hours. I felt this would make the composition more exciting. At the upper right corner of the image you can actually see Jupiter.
At this time Jupiter is shining in our night sky to the South-South East. I chose not to include Jupiter in this sketch, although I do have other photographs from past years I can compose a new sketch of Jupiter from.
For this sketch though I believed the Moon required centre stage.
I hope you enjoy my artwork.
First Mount vista from Second Mount
This digital artwork image “First Mount vista from Second Mount“ is saturated by 70% to highlight the adverse polar melting, air pollution effects of global warming through manmade GHG’s.
Carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxide (NOx), anthropogenic methane (CH4), tropospheric ozone (O3) and other interconnected fossil fuels’ pollutants in our atmosphere through excessive, anti-ecological, environmentally damaging, economically inequalitive, manmade industrial activities on a global scale.
Nature is beautiful, however, through excessive manmade activites natural woodland is experiencing mass deforestation and habitat destruction. This deplorable situation is unsustainable at its present rate.
Hope you enjoy the reasons why I made this artwork 🙂
Second Mount Foremost Pathway
My artwork “Second Mount Foremost Pathway“ features a view from an elevated plateau towards an organic pathway of trees in early Autumn fall. Leaves are strewn amongst infrequently trodden grasses.
The foremost tree has its ‘eye’ looking directly towards us.
Hope you enjoy 🙂
Lakescape on an Overcast Day
“Lakescape on an Overcast Day” includes some whimsical ‘eyes’ in the foreground bushes. All fauna eyes are pure chance. I highlighted these through further pencil work to accentuate their creature-like qualities.
A prominent all-seeing climate change eye appears in the midst of the lake. This ‘eye’ occurred completely by chance without design or forethought by me. I kept the mid-ground trees and bushes (above the waterline) without heavy pencil shading, to make for a pleasing visual contrast within my composition.
Please enjoy, thank you.
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