Demented Space, by Kyban

An endless ocean. Cold, harsh and hostile. Water as far as the eye can see, and an incessant rain puring down your neck.
   That’s what the picture is to me. The picture Kyban has made through a 3D-animating-program is maybe a little abstract; one can look at it in more ways than one, and still get a somewhat clear picture of it all. The way I see it, it looks like an infinite ocean, exposed to a violent rainfall. But of some reason one get’s the feeling that the picture can’t be of the earth, unless it’s a theoretical picture about the future?
   Another thing one notices is a bunch of half-transparent clouds that are somewhere above the surface. Some of them are enlightened by a, to the viewer unknown, light-source, or could it be the clouds themselves that are glowing? Then, another odd thing: the horizon. An odd stream of light, covering the whole horizon. More enlightened clouds? Fog? A massive incoming tidal-wave? Or maybe a tidal wave that’s on its way away from the viewer? Or maybe the picture shows a place, where a massive explosion occurred a short time ago, and the clouds are the remainings of the blast, while the stream of light is the wave of force that pushes a lot of water with it, going away from the viewer…?
   Whatever really happened in that place is unknown for the viewer. IF it really is another planet, somewhere out in space, the thing one can see there might have something to do with the life-cycle of the planet, like the planets birth or destruction, for instance. But it could also be a fenomenon that occurs daily, if not constantly. But if we go back to the theory of it, being a picture of the earth, after a couple of hundred years? No humanity as far as the eye can see, most probably because humanity has whiped itself out by then. Everything that’s left of the earth is an endless ocean, with a very few cliffs poking out from the water here and there. The artist might have had a thought behind it all, which still remains as a mystery to the viewer.
   This picture isn’t too far from Kyban’s other “spacescape”-pictures. Somewhat abstract, surreal, and has a capturing “escape-from-reality” -feeling in it. Most of her spacescape pictures can be seen in more ways than one, and this is no exception. It’s actually only up for the individual viewer to take a real good, long look at it and ask oneself… “What do I see here, anyways…?”