It includes pictures of the rough-draft demo dioramas I’ve made, to give you an idea what the finished gallery might look like!
Excerpts from the “About the Aliens” page:
Kit and Sessaris are humanoids from the planet Becca. No one knows why their home world has so much variation in the number of limbs people are born with, but their society excels at accommodating all sorts of body configurations. Sessaris has only one arm and one leg, and Kit has only arms. Both of them use an assortment of prosthetic limbs, which can be switched out as needed. Kit is a painter, and Sessaris is skilled with the prosthetic violin. Their shared home consists of two cubes: a dry upstairs and an aquatic downstairs for swimming with fin prostheses.
Tree Mother’s real name can’t be pronounced, because she doesn’t communicate through sound. Her language is based on movements of the feather-like flaps on her chest. When introducing herself, she has her name translated into words of the same meaning in the other language. Her translator and life companion is a Dian Cliff-bird named Singer, who knows her language and over seventy sound-based ones— thanks to a brilliant linguistic mind, individually controllable feathers, and a vocal tract that can mimic nearly any sound. On Tree Mother’s world, people choose their own names, and hers reflects her passion for gardening. On her potted plants she grows fruit that she sells to chefs like those in the nearby Baking Cooperative. She feels more need for privacy than most other beings in this sector, so her bed and bath are behind a door. She even has curtains, but she usually keeps them open for the plants.
These aliens are just an example. There’s no limit to what kinds of creatures the gallery might someday include! And if it does ever happen, we want all sorts of artists and writers to be part of it.
I gotta update that site. So much is out of date. For instance… if I was gonna do this project now, it would NOT be in Los Angeles, it would be in Minnesota.
because like 3 years after I created them, Andy Weir published the novel “Project Hail Mary,” and then this year it became a hugely popular movie…
and, because the collective mind of the masses follows no logic whatsoever… it’s not gonna matter that 2017 is before 2021
or that “rock aliens with a language similar to music” is a pretty intuitive concept that probably neither of us were anywhere near the first to think of…
all that matters is who was the first (within recent popular awareness) to make it super big in Hollywood with that idea
it’s not gonna change the fact that A, G and F#, if I ever do anything more with them, will now be instantly disregarded as “off-brand Eridians”
