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.
0264 - 2025.12 Coincidence
Do you believe in coincidences? I do. My name is Manatie. I go by my surname only these days, my parents thought it amusing to name me Hugh. Old family name they said, but I got tired of the joke. Ho
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0264 - 2025.12 Coincidence
Do you believe in coincidences? I do. My name is Manatie. I go by my surname only these days, my parents thought it amusing to name me Hugh. Old family name they said, but I got tired of the joke. Ho
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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
digital
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
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
digital
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
digital
0257 - 2025.10 Moontrap
After my holidays, dragging family around many of the architectural wonders of the modern world, I’m an engineer after all, my next assignment is literally off the planet. I’m an infrastructure recyc
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David Bentley
digital
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
digital
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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David Bentley
digital
0199 - 2025.06 Cage Paradox
“A Dyson Sphere doesn’t quite capture what is happening. It’s ancient and corroded, but not uniformly, tarnished but not rusty, for rust needs an electrolyte and an oxidiser, and none are present. We
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David Bentley
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0204 - 2025.06 Fire in the Sky
“The fire came quickly, we took to our canoes for the safety of the lake. The yellow red flames reflected briefly on the water, together with the last of the green, revealing the ghostly outline of s
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