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Hand carved/hand printed linocut [edit : that i made] 70x100cm, gold & black version. Scifi inspired work

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Like the plaque they put on the voyager spacecraft.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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