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Published: 2014-07-08 04:15:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 954; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 1
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I recently read the Uplift novels by David Brin and absolutely loved them. They're full of these moments and visuals that really stuck with me. In particular, the poem that closes out Infinity's Shore has been bouncing around my head for weeks now. So, when I wanted to do a quick one-hour painting I thought I'd do the scene the poem is from, wherein engineer Emerson comes to terms with all he's that's been taken from him on his journey back to the Streaker, in he hopes of making room for some other obsession.When the winter's typhoon pounds you
onto sand grains, sharp and gleaming,
and creation all-conspiring
breaks you on a Time of Changes.
At the moment when breath falters
and your lifeblood pours out streaming,
cast around that bright reef, dear friend
for a gift to grant another.
For some way to repay forward
all the favors you were given.
For in good time prospects glitter
far along Infinity's Shore.
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Had to redraw poor Emerson's head five times to get the angle right, and still I fear I did more damage to him than the aliens did.
