Rob Rey
Member Since October 2013
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Falling Fire
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Art Details
| Title: | Falling Fire |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Mediums: | Oils |
| For Sale: | Sold |
| Views: | 2377 |
| Posted: | 10/14/2013 |
| Status: | Unpublished |
About the Artist
Rob Rey
Member Since October 2013
Projects: Abend Gallery, Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Upper Deck, Star Wars Trading Card Game, HEX Online Card Game
Location: Centennial, CO
Description
18 x 24 inches. I like to think about what earlier people would have thought of all those lights up in the sky. We tend to take for granted our knowledge that stars are burning balls of gas, and that we know what space is. But, before science told us these things, people could only guess at what all those lights were based on what they saw from hill tops such as this. The astronomer, Carl Sagan, proposed that a star looks not unlike a campfire from a great distance and people may have seen stars as distant campfires of the gods. This thought is one of my main inspirations for this piece. This is the reason I included distant campfires dotting the landscape below as well as the reason for the title " Falling Fire."
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