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Thoughts: More practice of Gaster, of Undertale. This time, a rough developmental sketch for an intended sculpture.

While there is much debate over what has come of Gaster, this sculpture and it's related set of concepts are meant to explore the sort of peace or gestalt-existence that he might experience - in whatever state of awareness, control, or consciousness - in his continuum of self in the Void. Three of his manifest hands are suspended around his head; standing for any number of great triune abstracts, they are also meant to call on the mortal lives of himself and Papyrus and Sans... Or perhaps his Followers who helped pave the way to his Fallen/Transcended state? Fundamental coordinate axes, phases of existence, great pillars of philosophy, physical laws... They are there.

The clear red scarf around his neck is foremost meant to call upon Mercy, passion for life, for ideals, and for all of the conscious experiences that make us who we are.
The lab coat in Gaster's hands is what was once meant to be his - but it may also stand for Sans and his recurring suffering, or perhaps for Alphys and her present torment. For every seeking mind who ever strained to free their fellow beings from imprisonment...

Lastly, the scars upon his face have become symbolically exacerbated, his shattered skull meant to be a spiraling lotus of fragments, and the fissure beneath his eye weeping black pitch onto his chest and scarf. Despite it all, Gaster still bears a strange expression of aponia.

I've more to explore before I land at a concept for this sculpting. The sculpture itself may be unpredictable in many ways. But for now, there is this.

Materials: Sketchbook paper and a simple mechanical pencil, and digital layers

Notes: Undertale and Gaster are property of Toby Fox.

Description

Thoughts: More practice of Gaster, of Undertale. This time, a rough developmental sketch for an intended sculpture.

While there is much debate over what has come of Gaster, this sculpture and it's related set of concepts are meant to explore the sort of peace or gestalt-existence that he might experience - in whatever state of awareness, control, or consciousness - in his continuum of self in the Void. Three of his manifest hands are suspended around his head; standing for any number of great triune abstracts, they are also meant to call on the mortal lives of himself and Papyrus and Sans... Or perhaps his Followers who helped pave the way to his Fallen/Transcended state? Fundamental coordinate axes, phases of existence, great pillars of philosophy, physical laws... They are there.

The clear red scarf around his neck is foremost meant to call upon Mercy, passion for life, for ideals, and for all of the conscious experiences that make us who we are.
The lab coat in Gaster's hands is what was once meant to be his - but it may also stand for Sans and his recurring suffering, or perhaps for Alphys and her present torment. For every seeking mind who ever strained to free their fellow beings from imprisonment...

Lastly, the scars upon his face have become symbolically exacerbated, his shattered skull meant to be a spiraling lotus of fragments, and the fissure beneath his eye weeping black pitch onto his chest and scarf. Despite it all, Gaster still bears a strange expression of aponia.

I've more to explore before I land at a concept for this sculpting. The sculpture itself may be unpredictable in many ways. But for now, there is this.

Materials: Sketchbook paper and a simple mechanical pencil, and digital layers

Notes: Undertale and Gaster are property of Toby Fox.