First Point of Aries: December 2014

Friday, 26 December 2014

An Imperial Knight and inspirational reads

Before the end of 2014 I will post my third completed miniature of 2014: An Imperial relic from the past originally built as part of a Golden Demon entry in 2004 and now, a decade later, found and finished - and part of my (luckily) growing Cabinet of Wonders.

But before that I will wish you all a great holiday and, with two small things to share, thank you for hanging on to FPOA:

First of all one of my favourite treats of this December has been the Christmas Countdown over at Miniatextures by the ever-so-talented Jakob Rune Nielsen. It was a pleasure to follow his journey of finishing an Imperial Knight in 24 days - and even though the result is a true beauty it is the experimentation and testing of new colours and techniques, which I really want to compliment.

Secondly I have been re-reading Dan Abnett's brilliant Pariah and Perihelion on the recommendable Alizabeth Bequin and the continued journeys of Gregor Eisenhorn and Gideon Ravenor: A re-reading which has inspired me to begin a third Melancholia piece, which I look forward to share with you in 2015!

Presently

First Point of Aries is inspired by the title of an Echospace track. A hauntingly beautiful one of a kind.

Echospace - First Point of Aries

But also by the day I came into this world - many, many moons ago. The first spring day that year. The Vernal Equinox. When day and night on the Northern hemisphere were equally long. My first day was as long as my first night. Darkness and light.

Coincidentally this too was and still is the first day of Aries. Which somehow makes FPOA by Echospace a very good starting point for this blog and my personal endeavours into the imaginary worlds of Games Workshop.

Worlds that are weathered, beaten, ambient, dystopian and full of darkness and light. Worlds that are aesthetic in the more original sense of the word - as in sensuous.

As such I am immensely inspired by those creative minds and fellow puppeteers who are able to bring aesthetics understood not as beauty of form but rather sensuous quaility into their work. Huge inspirations being aesthete extraordinaires John Blanche, Mikael Silvanto (Migsula) and Jakob Rune Nielsen.