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When I discovered this extraordinary world
by reading ' Zara ', the second tome of the
'Terres creuses' (Hollow Earths) series,
when I was 14, a feeling of anger came over
me. I wondered how an architect like you,
Mr Schuiten (it is only later than I knew
that you aren't), could make such Horrible
mistakes. Everyone knows how the law of the
gravity works, how then could you describe
a world where the gravitation would not be
the effect of the attraction of the masses
but that of the Holy Ghost... (some characters
walk without stopping in the internal surface
of a hollow planet (that's completely unrealistic),
others are fixed on the internal surface
of another planet as to a giant wall (that's
quite as unrealistic)).
If at that time I had had your address, I
would have sent a well felt letter telling
you of my indignation for such aberrations.
I read and read again this album, reassuring
me on the cogency of my convictions. Until
one day, I said to myself 'And why not?'.
Yes why should the gravitation in this story
not be applied by the will of the Holy Ghost
(or anybody else) and according to the most
fantastic manner that can be... Why should
everything that art in general can generate,
be absolutely endorsed by a Cartesian demonstation?
I discovered this day that it did not make
any sense. As of this day, my vision of the
world has completely changed: I did not look
any more at the paintings of Picasso as being
full of errors or listen to the music of
my elder brothers and sisters as being merely
noise. This album was a revealation to me.
Sudenly, it opened my spirit, made me receptive
to art. I could discover its meaning and
it gave a desire to be interested in art
in all its forms, which teached me the tolerance,
broadmindedness, imagination, creativity...
If my artistic journey is mainly due only
to me, you were the instigator. And for this
reason, I will be eternally grateful to you.
This recognition doubling with another: that
you gave your permission to recover your
work to recreate others things from them,
I had already offered you in thanks (at the
time of the conference of May 3 in the FNAC
of Brussels) a photograph of the mapemonde
of the Obscure Cities in 3 dimensions in
a hangar, here are other images generated
by computer: variation on the topic of the
cube.
Thank you.
Christophe
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| Some backgrounds* |  (74K) |
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| Some stereoscopic pictures** |  (394K) |
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* If you create a web page with one of these
resized picture in background, you will have
the impression of a grid.
**Pictures giving 3D impressions of cubes
(if your eyes don't look at the same cube
at the time).