"Jeepers
Creepers " is, like my other Retropolitan images, set in the
world of the future the way it used to be. Figure it's the sort
of wide-open, adventurous day-after-tomorrow that you would have
been expecting if you were reading a little more Buck Rogers than
geometry back in about 1939.
This
is one of those images that really feels like it's an illustration
of a story, but I have to admit that I'm not entirely sure what
this story is. You're welcome to provide your own.
The
way I see it, our heroes - or at least Rusty the Robot - have been
here before. "Here", I think, is another planet, or maybe
one of our planets' moons. Whenever and wherever that was, Rusty
made a big impression on the locals, without ever knowing that they
were there, and his visit has been incorporated into their mythology.
Who
knows exactly what they think he is or what he was doing there?
But they seem to have decided that he's a pretty important character,
and here we see a shrine they've built to him. Now that he's come
back and found it, I'm afraid that he's a little embarassed about
the whole thing, and he's going to have some trouble explaining
it to his friends.
And
as for the locals, they seem to have taken to the Cargo Cult (or
"Field of Dreams") approach: "if we build it, they
will come". And it does seem to have worked out that way.
Like
my other prints, this is mainly a 3D rendered scene with a liberal
amount of retouching done in Photoshop. It's entirely digital, start
to finish, at a resolution of 300 DPI.
The
print is an on-demand, open edition reproduction of my digital painting.
Its resolution is 300 DPI at a full size of 24 by 18 inches. There's
a parchment-textured margin on the sides all around the image area.
copyright
Bradley W. Schenck 2005
