This painting is inspired by early photographic images captured by astronomers on lo-fi telescopes. The subject here is Olympus Mons, an extinct volcano on Mars and the tallest “mountain” in our Solar System. Although I’m referencing the technology of the twentieth century, which isn’t ancient history, by today’s standards those astro photos have a romantic handmade appeal. Very low in resolution so, crude in detail but, just enough to enable us to extrapolate data from the limitations of the medium.
