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"Somebody is watching" theme in sci-fi art


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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The thing in sci-fi art is that somehow there would be something, what is hidden from the public. Or what is hiding in the space or another planet, and those creatures are always strange or hidden. Sometimes I have thought sill things while looking at the photographs, what is taken from the spacewalk, and I must ask one question, how the men in the control room really know who is in the picture.

Those pictures, where the astronauts are hiding behind the black masks, what are protecting them against the radiation, what comes from the sun, have given the reason for writing very weird stories about this kind of things. In those stories astronauts are facing something, that is very frightening and unknown to the people.

Once I read a book, where astronauts operated secretly with humanoids and the story was fascinating.  The idea was that the control of the spaceflight was used the choreography, where alien was opposite of the human in the space suit, what was similar, with the suit, what was used by humans. The idea was, that there was no difference between man and alien when they were in the space suits.

The idea of the space art and sci-fi books are similar to books, what are written about submarines. The men in the closed space with no change to escape is fascinated the writers from Jules Verne to Stanislaw Lem, and this idea of the lonely ship lonely in the space is very interesting. It would give the writer freedom for writing the things, what would feel to be in the spacecraft over the hostile planet. The set is similar to the Jules Verne's Captain Nemo-books, where captain Nemo is under the polar ice with his submarine "Nautilus", and this submarine is losing the oxygen.

The idea is that behind the steel core is the crew, fighting against the enemy, what is coming from outer space. In those fictional space journeys, the spaceship is portrayed as an independent state. There is no way to send the message to the base, what is very far away, and that's why those crew members must be very independent because the help would not be expected when they are in trouble. And that thing makes sci-fi books very interesting. And of course, sci-fi books are containing many things, what fascinates people, and they make an influence for the sci-fi drawings and paintings.

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