"pənʌmbrə /6", aka Escape, is the transitional moment between the chaotic Riot scene in the 11-piece Penumbra story, "pənʌmbrə /5", and the entry into a gallery of alternative dimensions and timelines, to be explored in "pənʌmbrə /7".
Our traveler is escaping the Riot in the 5th dimension, guided into a stairwell under the burning city of "pənʌmbrə /5", they now fall through a gateway of time, space, and understanding.
This disorienting moment is a crescendo of twisting experience, where The Traveler eventually finds their footing from chaos, and begins the phase of the journey that breaks away the confines of time itself.
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References:
There's many call-outs in this piece to other works in the series, from right to left, every other Penumbra piece so far in the series has its place visually. The figures from /1, and /2 are represented in the frames, /3 and 5/ are set in the large panels as reflections of the city they traveled through, and /4 in the frame on left, looking back at The Traveler is the figure that welcomed them onto the mortal street.
These are placed as a way to show how the journey leads us, and we are guided by ourselves, even if we appear as separate, we are all one-- a lesson The Traveler learns later in the story.
In the "Testament of Penumbra", an extended narrative version of this visual tale told in the "Testaments of Syncretica" that currently in development, The Traveler moves forward into this space, and soon finds themselves moving back through it once again, from a new perspective. Thus, the encrypted message, written in the same visual language as the Series title, speaks of this cyclical nature of reality; As Before, So Ahead. More on this element in the next installment, "pənʌmbrə /7", aka Gallery.
This phrase also takes a nod to a single 1/1 piece, EON, from mid-2023, and is a pivotal understanding in the story of Penumbra.
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Penumbra:
This series takes one step into the shadow of obscurity, to gaze through the looking glass of our reality. A reflection of the world around us, seen through the other side of our dimensional perspective. Penumbra explores the journey of wayward astral travels, experiencing glimpses of the familiar from unfamiliar perspectives.
"pənʌmbrə /6" (aka "Escape") is the sixth mint of this series.
While this series eventually shows a journey of 11 scenes, from beginning to end, Penumbra is being released in non-sequential order.
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Process & Medium: (Mixed media, AI, Photoshop)
Developed with a highly unique elemental process involving the blending of the artist's own Oil Paintings, Photography, Found textures, and Sketchbook studies combined with AI, and finally digitally compositing with Photoshop and other tools.
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/pəˈnʌmbrə/ or puh-NUM-bruh
A partial shadow surrounding the complete shadow cast by an object, where only a portion of the light source is obscured by the object, resulting in a partial or incomplete shadow. A state of partial illumination or obscurity.
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/æz bɪˈfɔr, soʊ əˈhɛd/
