The Atlas of Dreams - Color Plate 192

Out of the chaos, this colorful fish just swims right up to its side of the page and gives you a through inspection. You’ve suspected for a while that this sort of thing might be possible within the Atlas, but you are still shocked when it actually happens. As it’s such an inoffensive creature, you try to talk to it, but it doesn’t respond. In fact, you can’t be sure if it’s moving at all, though the bubbles seem to drift upward when you’re not looking...

“Color Plate 192” combines a photograph from deviantART member Oxana with a painting created by my father, Gus Maier, and an image which I created in ArtMatic.

"The Atlas Of Dreams" is an ongoing project that began in 1999. Each plate is composed of several different images combined to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Complex borders around the images fade into a white background. Source images include 19th century engravings, filtered stock photos, ArtMatic renders, astronomical photos of space and planetary surfaces, the paintings of my father, Gus Maier, and of course my own artwork - recycled and reused. Watch out for stray critters...