WORDS & IMAGES
Digital art. Short stories.
While exploring my artistic side, I experimented with digital art. Starting with a simple image and manipulation on my iPhone. Then I added a few words of explanation, which crept into a story as I did more of them
This started to distract from the simple Art images that had no story, so I’ve split out the digital art into this site.
There is no great logic to this, the stories are for the most part stand alone.
The Art is on dbart.quotion.co
I’m not on social media.
0244 - 2025.09 The crystal caves
Life on Mars was always a bit of an oxymoron. Primitive. Ancient. Not very H.G. Wells at all. So the early settlers became miners for more than one reason. The hollow magma tubes became underground s
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0244 - 2025.09 The crystal caves
Life on Mars was always a bit of an oxymoron. Primitive. Ancient. Not very H.G. Wells at all. So the early settlers became miners for more than one reason. The hollow magma tubes became underground s
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David Bentley
digital
0213 - 2025.07 Bleeding Heart
What do you see here? A tropical underwater getaway, a pillar of coral (so don’t forget the snorkel and fins), autumnal colour, an abstract painter whose style you feel you should recognise, but can’
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David Bentley
digital
0189 - 2025.06 Alien Landscape 1
On an alien, unexplored planet with unfamiliar skies signs of life may be difficult to find. Scanning from orbit does not reveal everything, the ISS told us that, when the first astronauts looked dow
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David Bentley
digital
0248 - 2025.09 Desert Dreaming
What, I thought, am I looking at? Am I dreaming? Is this real? The image in front of me is desert like, but not quite right. What do I remember? A camel comes to mind - the desert is not a place for
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David Bentley
digital
0255 - 2025.10 Parliament
The Imperium Presidency came with great honour, as well as great responsibility. That is self evident, I hear your unsaid thoughts, but as your tour guide and historian, I suggest there is more than
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David Bentley
digital
0251 - 2025.09 The Wind
When he was eleven, Simon started writing and drawing in a notebook. Not regularly. Just every now and then when the wind blew strongly enough to get his attention. So many questions, so few answers
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David Bentley
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0215 - 2025.07 Surprise!
In the Southern Hemisphere July is winter. On the east coast it is often cool and dry, westerly adiabatic winds losing their moisture rather than bringing cold rain. Blue sky days. In the southern h
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David Bentley
digital
0194 - 2025.06 Gomper
“We’re approaching a binary star system, at her satanic majesty’s request, 2000 light years from home. Time to check the readouts. Whoa there, Gomper! They should look like a rainbow, not a distant c
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David Bentley
digital
0205 - 2025.06 Pixie Blue
The seed cones lay in the winter sun, slowly bleaching from brown to white. The pixies came out at night, with their little paint brushes and added a touch of pale blue, their favourite colour; and t
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David Bentley
digital
0245 - 2025.09 Spiders from Mars (Seventeen)
Do you ever have one of those days when things, well, don’t turn out as planned? The sort where you wake up twenty minutes late and for the rest of the day you play catch-up? Where the traffic lights
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