"Carbon Based Lifeform" [OC]

thank you very much, this is exactly my initial source of inspiration and now a common thread. I take the opposite view of the golden record and the pioneer plates in the sense that I like to think that my engravings could resemble (human typography and occult elements aside) what we could see on an extraterrestrial ship

thanks , hahaha :)

Nevermind, I bought it, it wasn't nearly as pricey as I thought it would be. Support artists.

Beautiful. Do you per chance know an electronic music band called Carbon Based Lifeforms or is it a coincidental name?

yea i like this band ! there is no direct link to them apart from the fact that I find this title cool and that it was in the theme :)

check their profile

https://juliencatanese.bigcartel.com/

Mine :)

yes, you can find my website link on my profile

Seconded.

Really nice. Curious what it’s printed on?

thanks a lot, il's printed on 200g/m2 Japanese black Satogami paper

thank you very much! ( the frame is not real, it's a mock up to highlight the work but I would love to find one in this shade) :)

even if you don't buy, glad you like it that much :)

Thanks a lot ! happy to be there, following the good advice of a friend :) I know Culture Hustle a little, I just saw posts about their black pigment in particular, it looks very interesting. I will look in more detail

thanks ! :)

hi ! for the moment not really, there are elements borrowed from electronics and binary in some of my engravings but nothing around computing as such. It’s actually an idea worth exploring. Honestly, I've kind of missed the boat of my generation because I'm very bad at computers and I keep to it at a relative distance, but I could still consider something around that in the future. the code and electronic aspect often has a glyphic aspect for beginners, it can be graphically interesting

How long did it take for you to make this? rather how long does it take for you to finish a piece from planning to execution, I’m very interested to know the process

from the design work on an illustrator, to transfer to lino plate and engraving, more than a hundred hours. engraving the plaque took me a little over 30 hours of work. You will find photos of the plates on my insta in bio :)

Humans are ultimately quite absent from that work, the theme is more exobiology :) Sometimes there are direct links, sometimes not at all, it is a mixture of one third, two thirds of figurative elements and abstract elements without there necessarily being a link between the different parts. I am looking above all for graphic coherence and a homogeneous, egnigmatic whole before a real meaning. it is above all a purely graphic work. a framework is still present: exobiology and cosmology. there is a topographical map, cosmological elements, figurative relief, an element which is related to bacterial life, a carbon atom, a molecule relating to "chnops" main elements of organic chemistry, a bit of dna ...all of this refers to the appearance of life elsewhere in space, all mixed with elements with occult/scifi connotations

Your rectangular pieces would work really well as deskmats

indeed, it could. I have already seen an artist with a fairly similar style who had cast his plaque in epoxy resin to make a desk

Gorgeous! That was an immediate buy. Any tips on where to get a nice frame?

thank you very much ! :) personally I use glass frames with a thin border (no more than 1 cm) black or gold. A varnished wood that tends towards gold as in the photo could also be very suitable...being in France, I leave it to someone else to worry about where to find it :)