Burning red as desert soil, as prickly as a thousand cacti, your exterior terrified all comers. Sneering at the wind and cursing at the sun, your demeanour made the warmest cool.
There was never a point peeling back your shell, never a point seeking a different version of you. All that ever existed here was scorched Earth. Yet, you never singed me.

one of my favourite pieces from 2021, now richer with texture.

2160 × 2160 loop

Containing a unique mixture of rare space metals, this newly discovered asteroid has regmaglypts all over it, vesicles caused by bubbles of gas formed in magma during eruption. It was ejected into space from Triton, one of Neptune's moons. Part of the NFT Asteroids collection.

System: SOL

Orbits: Neptune

Properties:
45.1% Palladium
30.36 % Iron
24.2% Silver
0.34% Unknown

#002 / #nftasteroids

“A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . . . defines what can and cannot be done to her.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Sound by Astrofreq (Ethereal Wasteland) from Pixabay Music

Minted June 2021 on Foundation by Hulki Okan Tabak

digital painting, ai machine learning, 4032x4032 px.
2021, Paul Solovyev

The Downside of Mind vs. The Upside of Taking the Leap

Original Digital Mixed Media (2020)