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
0254 - 2025.10 Signs of Life
Space is unusual. Full of surprises. Mostly in the imagination of science fiction writers that made anything possible. It can also be scary. Solar storms, dust clouds, exploding stars. Let me tell y
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David Bentley
digital
0203 - 2025.06 Ionian Shadow
Io is intensely volcanically active due to tidal forces from Jupiter and its neighboring moons, with Sulfur and Sulfur dioxide abundant on the surface. Lightly coloured from orbit, on the surface it’
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David Bentley
digital
0263 - 2025.11 Green planet 2
Having settled after the surprise, we now needed to deal with the reality. Get closer, take what measurements we could, maybe some manual star sightings I suggested but the navigator just laughed at
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David Bentley
digital
0243 - 2025.09 Green Planet 1
I knew from a young age that I would probably end up in space. My earliest memories are playing rocket games with my father, and a house full of space books. Plus I was interested. Dinosaurs and supe
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David Bentley
digital
0201 - 2025.06 Crack in Time
Mercury, closest to the sun, was always expected to be sunburnt, cracked and full of surprises. Early Mariner flybys did not dispel this line of thinking, returned data suggesting a moon like surface
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David Bentley
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0198 - 2035.06 Lost
The golden hour is special, the pre-sunset glow after a burning hot day adding vivid colour to the monochromatic sand and rocks. If only we knew the direction to the nearest oasis. Technique: #digit
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David Bentley
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0200 - 2025.06 Bubble Up
It’s good to know which way to go. ———————————————————— Technique: #digital Theme: #abstract Highlight colour: #white Series:
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David Bentley
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0196 - 2026.06 Perspective
One of the benefits of the high view is being able to look down. What do we see? A map? A game? Land use? With overlapping interests? It’s all a question of perspective. Technique: #digital Theme: #a
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David Bentley
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0202 - 2025.06 Pinwheel
Firework pinwheels spin so fast you cannot see them. Galaxies of the same name spin so slowly you’ll need thousands of lifetimes to see any movement. It’s all just flashes of colour. Technique: #digi
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