This subject matter inspired me to do quite a few pieces. I've recently dabbled in digital painting and I've been looking forward to sharing some of my art (or "art"). I was going to jump back on the VtHU train a couple of weeks back, but I had a lot of things to do and felt I couldn't contribute anything meaningful to the theme. Same with last week's writing round. Inspiration's a funny thing - if you don't have it, it can be downright impossible to come up with anything, but once it's there, the ideas just keep coming. Even now I still have a few un-realized ideas from this theme.

Because I'm unsure as to the reliability of my image host, I'm posting one submission as a test with others to follow if it works (the image shows up for me but there's no guarantee it does for others). I'll start with one of the simpler pieces:

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Despite the Precursors' obvious eldritch overtones I never imagined their tech as looking organic or H. R. Giger-esque. Instead, I've always seen them as falling in the classically geometric and featureless end of the sufficiently advanced civilization spectrum (think 2001). With unknowable beings like the Precursors, ominous and unsettling works better than obviously evil, and as far as the visual language of science fiction goes, featurelessness tends to correlate with advancement.