Lot's Wife Edition 6 2015
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6<br />
CoVER EXPLANATIoN<br />
Bees? Bees!<br />
Cover artwork by<br />
Timothy Newport<br />
This cover was inspired by the striking exterior structure of the new<br />
Green Chemical Futures building in the Science precinct. It seems<br />
to have divided the community: half think it looks like a spaceship,<br />
the other like a beehive. Oh, and presumably someone out there<br />
appreciates the elegance of the design, but at this point I think<br />
they’re afraid to speak up.<br />
Compositionally, I took inspiration from classic sci-fi illustration,<br />
with panoramic views of hundreds of spaceships docking. The<br />
background was inspired somewhere between "Come Visit Sunny<br />
Whatever" and the propaganda posters of the post-war Soviet Union.<br />
I then proceeded to make an absolute mess of the whole thing, but<br />
hey, it turned out alright.<br />
The building itself really does look like a honeycomb structure: I<br />
wouldn’t be at all surprised if local bees did confuse the building for<br />
a giant hive!
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