Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistRudy Rucker CollectionPaintings
Description Acrylic on canvas, 14' x 18', April, 20087.
In April of 2008, I arranged for a small press to reprint two of my early science fiction novels, Spacetime Donuts and The Sex Sphere. As part of the deal, they agreed to let me design the covers.
The novel Sex Sphere is about a being from the fourth dimension named Babs. Her intersection with our 3D space looks like parts of a woman, squeezed together and rounded off. She manipulates some of the characters into setting off a terrorist A-bomb in Florence, Italy. You can see the mushroom cloud in the background.
I liked painting this, as its so intense and cartoony and surreal. I think the sex sphere looks a little scary.
Originally this painting was going to be a landscape looking out over Silicon Valley. I went up on St. Josephs Hill with a canvas and paints and started the picture there with my painter friend Vernon Head. Vernon knows my working habits by now, and he knew something weird was going to show up in the foreground. For awhile I wasnt sure what it should be, but when I realized I needed a cover image for The Sex Sphere, I was ready to go.
Rudy Rucker, Los Gatos, California Member Since February 2007 Artist Statement Rudy Rucker is a well-known novelist and popular science writer who paints surreal or abstract scenes that sometimes relate to incidents in his books. He's been painting since the year 2000. His paintings are popular, and he's sold about a hundred and twenty of them.
See his paintings page
https://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
For info on the individual pictures, see his online catalog
https://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings/rucker_paintings_catalog_scroll.pdf
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Catalog Details Product No 994526 Subjects StyleSurrealism Medium TagsRucker, Rudy