It all started with an idea…

10/17/2020

Hello!

I wanted to share a bit of the history of Exiles of a Gilded Moon with you. It began as an idea during my teenage years, and transformed into an epic series. As students in my senior year French class, we were encouraged to try different styles of art. My teacher reminded us that it was common for works of art to influence each other, such as Hiroshige’s Wave over Kanagawa inspiring Debussy’s Le Mer. One day, we were asked to create an abstract painting. I chose to paint an alien sky dominated by a ringed planet and its multiple orbiting moons, from the perspective of a viewer looking up at the sky. At that moment, I wondered what kind of story could I create based upon such an usual scene. Over the years I wrote and imagined, what a civilization depicted in this painting might look like. Recently, I asked my family if they could locate that painting. Here is my original painting after all these years…