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The Atlas of Dreams - Color Plate 198

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You’ve always thought of jellyfish as rather slow creatures, mostly drifting with the tides, maybe squirting out some water to scoot around on their own power a bit. The jellyfish shown on this plate of the Atlas however, seems to be flying through the ocean on some urgent journey. You wonder if it’s swimming to or swimming from...

“Color Plate 198” combines a photograph from deviantART member Oxana with a painting created by my father, Gus Maier.

"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...
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Beautiful work! :clap:
I think it looks like a jellyfish if rotated 90* counterclockwise. :wow:
Well done! :D