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Untitled Photograph #2


“Untitled Photograph #2“ [1st January 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, artistically edited from a natural photograph, black & white digital image.

What could this be?

What does this mean?

Random or design?

Beautifully symmetric or strangely unknown?

Editing process explained:

The third light’s reflection (from left to right) became obscured through editing the brightness. Due to this unintended editing alteration, I used the second light’s reflection to replicate the third light’s reflection 🎨

I then artificially edited the second and third light’s reflections. The first and fourth light reflections underwent changes through earlier editing adjustments.

The background lighting which highlighted a ‘trees silhouette’, is darkened, to present the image as astronomy, natural phenomena or lights by design 🆒.

For the purpose of understanding the potential for artistic involvement, upon your natural instincts with a photograph or an artwork in progress – please take a look at the original unedited image:


“Untitled Photograph #2 – cropped, unedited“ [1st January 2022, digital image] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

The unedited image, though cropped, immediately above, still has an arty quality. I just needed to bring out the best from the photograph with my artistic idea. It should be noted this image is taken at a well-known lake in my local town. I stood and knelt whilst taking photographs from a singular position on a wooden fishing platform.

The precise time of this photograph you see here is 1924hrs on 1st January 2022.

My ‘lights’ series of photographs, which so far include the Moon, a human inhabitance, planets and industrial structures are inspired from certain science-fiction movies I love. With further artistic influence from particular classical books and specific past artwork writings I have created and published.

To view my past ‘lights’ series artworks, please kindly click the links provided below:

Lakescape in Moonlight

Untitled Photograph #1 / 1848hrs / 1851hrs

Moonlight in Cloud / The Inhabited Lights Engine

I hope these artworks intrigue you, please enjoy.

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Lungs of the Earth

King James VI I Oak of 1612 Lungs Left Right Centre
“Lungs of the Earth – Left Branch Perspective” [25th December 2021, photograph] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

In keeping with our planet’s trees being the “Lungs of the Earth” I thought it would be appropriate to include some photography representing this idea. I took these photographs spontaneously whilst walking in Meadow Two of my local Nature Reserve.

“Lungs of the Earth – Mid Branch Perspective” [25th December 2021, photograph] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

These photographs beautifully contrast against a grey wintry sky. The camera is angled approximately fifty degrees upwards perpendicular to level ground {#1}. Circa thirty five feet lineal distance from the tree itself {#2}.

“Lungs of the Earth – Right Branch Perspective” [25th December 2021, photograph] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

All three photographs are the same tree, the “King James VI & I Oak of 1612“. You can see this magnificent tree in late summer, including the fused horse chestnut tree sketch and photograph from my past blog article entitled: From the Fused Horse Chestnut Tree.

The description perspective is viewed from the entrance to the Nature Reserve at Meadow One. Whereas the photograph is taken from the otherside of this mighty Quercas Robur, in Meadow Two, standing position as above {#1, #2}.

The branches and twigs produce vein-like torrents (leaves, “alveoli”), passing through a heated circulatory ‘sea cycle’ (photosynthesis, “hydrological cycle”), in the manner of lungs, breath and veins, harmonic with Planet Earth.

I would also like to include an up-to-date winter photograph of the fused horse chestnut tree for you here:

“Fused Horse Chestnut Tree – photograph” [29th December 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

The branches at the lower-right provide the overhanging leaves, along with the fallen branch also featured in the sketch (see linked blog article – From the Fused Horse Chestnut Tree). You can see the twinned fusion of the tree’s trunk just above the hedge.

I have collected far in excess of one hundred conkers over the years. Such is the beauty of the horse chestnut tree seeds, I decided to make an artwork with these in the Arcimboldo style.

Here is a photographic representation of the Arcimboldo compositional style:

“Conkers, after Arcimboldo – White” [September 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

After producing this photograph, shown immediately above, I arranged this seasons conkers all together in a kind of harvest-like display for art loving citizens to enjoy:

“Conkers of the 2021 Season” [September 2021, photograph] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

I made two constrasting versions of these artworks here:

“Conkers, after Arcimboldo – Black” [October 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
“Conkers of the 2021 Season – Black” [October 2023, photograph] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

I hope you find these photographic artworks interesting, informative and fun.

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Moonlight and the Lights Engine

“Moonlight in Cloud” [photograph, 14th December 2021, 20:17hrs] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

What do you see when viewing the image entitled “Moonlight in Cloud”, immediately above?

“The Inhabited Lights Engine” [photograph, 14th December 2021, 20:21hrs] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

How do you feel when you view “The Inhabited Lights Engine” photograph, immediately above?

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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

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Have you ever read

scrolling depth charged Unfathomable?

thy mesh, thy honeycombs,

Impermeable, Impassable.

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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.

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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.
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Untitled Photograph #1

“Untitled Photograph #1“ [30th October 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, artistically edited photograph in black & white, digital image 5373 x 6248 pixels.

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:

Photograph taken at 1848hrs of the bright celestial body by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

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.

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The Curious Face in the Pond

“The Curious Face in the Pond“ [23rd Oct – 7th Nov 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with 3H HB 3B and green pencils in signed black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digital image 3475 x 2885 pixels.


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:

Inspiration for my sketch “The Curious Face in the Pond” – photograph by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

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 🙂

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Lakescape in Moonlight

“Lakescape in Moonlight“ [18th October 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with 3H HB 3B pencils and black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digital image 3520 x 2950 pixels.

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:

Photograph – “Lakescape in Moonlight“ [17th October 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

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.

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First Mount vista from Second Mount

“First Mount vista from Second Mount“ [12th October 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with 3H HB 3B, yellow and white pencils on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], 3450 x 2895 pixels in digitally saturated image shown.

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 🙂

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Second Mount Foremost Pathway

Second Mount Foremost Pathway 9th October 2021 by Matt The Unfathomable Artist
“Second Mount Foremost Pathway“ [9th October 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with 3H HB and 3B pencils on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], 3515 x 2910 pixels in digitally edited image shown.

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 🙂

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