Silence in fog.

 Silence in fog. 

The fog covers the things that surround us. So, we see only objects that are near to us. We can see the dock that is away from the dry land. We can see that a dock is a distinct entity. In many horror and detective stories. The ghosts are hiding in the fog. With supernatural and natural creatures. that hides the light. 

In old novels. London fog covered many real and fictional criminals, and sometimes I think that the horrible murders that Jack the Ripper committed would not have been possible if the fog hadn’t covered those things. Fog symbolizes a calm and silent moment. that just waits for something. That turns everything around. If we take pictures in the foggy weather, we can create an illusion that the thing that we introduce is separated from everything else. 

There is only an object that hovers in the white in the middle of nothingness. In horror movies, nuns vanish in the dark, foggy weather, and the supernatural screams fill the air. The fog plays a great role in Sherlock Holmes' classic novel “The Hound Of The Baskervilles”.  And it plays a big role in modern horror movies like “The Fog” and “Pet Cemetery”. 

But we know that the dock is part of the entirety. Some people say that when they are so-called fake dead, they are lying in a boat that travels in the fog. These kinds of things are very nice things to read. But why are there so many people who want to terminate those experiences as hallucinations? Don’t people need some hope that there can be something after the final moments? That is one of the things. That we should think about. When we write things like death. Fog makes things look calm. It makes the observer think that everything is calm, but still, something waits. We know that when fog rises. Pirates rise to the ship deck in the fog. 

Seas turn dangerous in fog. When visibility is low, there are always risks. And in many crime stories, the fog is the key element for successful crime. Fog is the thing that covers details. There is a calm. But at the same time. Threatening feeling. We know that fog doesn’t remain forever. Suddenly, the wind blows the fog away. And we can see details that the fog hides.  Fog just waits to be removed, and then the next chapter begins. The fog leaves a path to people who dare to look at the thing that the fog hides. It’s the estrade for fearless men and women who want to stop the madness. 

Just like Sherlock Holmes sees that the monster he hunts is some hybrid of Bullmastiff and Danish dog. When we don’t dare to see something, it turns it bigger and stronger than it ever can be. When we dare to look at things. That we are afraid, we can see how horrible it really is. Maybe it's horrible. When we see that thing, we can see that there is nothing supernatural. Sometimes people think that things like bears are werewolves. Bears can raise up, and they really look like wolves, especially in fog. 

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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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