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Published: 2007-01-26 16:56:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 36141; Favourites: 1153; Downloads: 394
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This particular Gearworld painting has been done for several years, and I never scanned or photographed it, because I had delusions of doing a show of Gearworld stuff. (This was back before I learned how perverse Gearworld was--clearing my schedule to paint it absolutely insured that it would dissolve like gritty smoke. Gearworld does not like to be pinned down. My studio is still full of aborted paintings from this period.)Don't ask me what it means. How'd the fish get there? What do they eat? I don't know. I'm not in charge here. These things just happen.
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I love how in one of them the water dried up leaving cute little fish bones. Very nice detail.
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Tadpoles. And toads that match the walls. You know it's calling to you...
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Hmm. I notice that the only test tube that isn't corked has a dead fish in it, while the corked ones have live fish. Dunno what sort of unconcious symbolism that could be, but it's just something I saw...
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hey dis is hot..........well reminds me my biochem lab
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"What do they eat?"
Not alot, by the look of that boney one.......
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Ah, I see, I'll have to look up Gearworld(don't ya know it sounds familiar)...reminds me of something you'd see in a Myst world...
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This is kind of why i got myself a beta, to have something floating in a tube of some sort that's swimming around. I like that it's living because it's interesting, other wise might have settled for something in fermaldehide which would be interesting too!
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I can't remember if I comented on this when I faved it forever ago, but I thought you should knwo that I love it. Its absolutly great! I hate you for your talents....Its just so unfair...
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Pretty interesting stuff; some of your illustrations are really delightful, and beautifully rendered.
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Ack! Poor fishes!!!! The fishs' water is drying up!!!! Nooo!!!!! 
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I like the concept in this. It's strange >> I like the expression of the second fish from the left
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i really love your gearworld stuff. it's pretty much only why i come onto DA anymore. what happened to the writings?
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Dead fishie.. *tear*
But it's so wonderfully, deliciously bizarre. Gearworld needs more love.
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I really like this one. The fish are so cute! Except for the dead one.... Wonder why it died... poor fishy.
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this is so sad...
but I love it!!! the whole Gearworld thing is totally amazing, really gets stuck in your head once you see it
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I find this strangely disturbing. I can't remember if I commented on this before, but if I didn't ... yeah. It's disturbing. Something about the little fish skeleton in the dry tube, and the worried-looking fish that only has a little dab of water instead of a whole tube's worth ... eep.
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Well, Gearworld seems like a pretty intriguing place, albeit a little frustrating to the artist.
I'm curious as to what else Gearworld holds.
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Reminded me of this one scene in Neil Gaiman's movie "Mirrormask".......
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perverse? is there somewhere I can find out more about gearworld?
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Cold and harsh technological age environment, uncertain and fearful fish, that's an awesome and somber piece.
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LOL Good one Ursula...must be those asian walking catfish...
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Heh, I like fish...
...lovely surreal style. Fav!
Reminds me of Science.......
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I seem to remember an earlier painting of a fish in a pipe, so maybe this is how they start out?
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Kinda reminds me of those frogs that carry their tadpoles up into the treetops and deposit them in those water storing plants, and then they come back every so often and feed them one of their own infertile eggs.
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Wow. Great concept. I like how you've included one with a skeleton in it.
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I just love it!
The colours are great! Those fishes are cute in a way.. The textyre of the wall is very nice and I like the concept, eaven though it doesn't have a particular meaning. Then everybody could have their own meaning of it
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Faves just because it involves glass vials, water, and tiny fish cramped in them. With a fish skeleton.
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For some reason this strikes me as very sad. I mean look at the poor fish with hardly any water, with the skeleton fish as a buddy to look at every time he turns round.
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I love this. Fish + Science = Love. Yes. I want it.
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