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Martian Oasis

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Another artwork I've made with inspiration from Kim Stanley Robison's Mars trilogy.

The original photo, which is public domain, is of a small village in the mountains of southern Afghanistan.

What we see here is a pressurized tent sheltering an oasis where the future of Mars agriculture is being tested and developed. Some tiny super resilient plants are already able to grow on the surrounding hills, but the atmosphere inside the tent allows a vast variety of farming inspired by the experience of thousands of years on Earth. The tent shelters very few buildings in order to leave as much space as possible to the cultures. That said, the area hides a vast inhabited underground complex. The exterior buildings are just the visible part of this scientific base.

As always, I made this with open-source program GIMP on Linux-Ubuntu.

More to be seen on my Da Vinci Mars Design blog : davinci-marsdesign.blogspot.fr…
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William-Black's avatar
This really captures the feel of Kim Stanley's work, it's very impressive how your art breaths life into these scenes.