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
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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David Bentley
digital
0206 - 2025.06 Witching Hour
“At the end of the day, as the light fades, if you look just right, and you’re quick, you’ll see the day spirits rise for the evening, leaving the shadows of the night.” Technique: #digital Theme: #
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David Bentley
digital
0208 - 2025.06 Bubble universe
“The bubble universe theory challenges our understanding of the universe and our place within it, suggesting an infinite array of possibilities beyond what we can currently observe.” Technique: #dig
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David Bentley
digital
0210 - 2025.06 Three dimensions of time
In a three dimensional world, we nominate time as the fourth. It’s all our little brains can make manage. But what if time itself is multi-dimensional? Here’s the science: The three-time-dimensions t
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David Bentley
digital
0211 - 2025.07 Storm by Night
“When the storm approaches at the eve of the day, it brings its friend, foreboding. With darkness, the mind is free to imagine, the wind thrashing the tree as if to free it from sprites, that dance,
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David Bentley
digital
0214 - 2025.07 warp signature
“As the rings of Saturn turn endlessly, catching the hues of the surface gas cloud bands and the diffracting sunlight, the double flash of a ship emerging from a worm hole is sighted. What spices do
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David Bentley
digital
0221 - 2025.08 Neptune rising, from Despina
“Despina, a minor sea god, lies close to Neptune and is in a losing battle to remain intact. That may free up its mineral wealth, but not quickly enough as planetary time scales are too slow for the
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David Bentley
digital
0188 - 2025.06 Glacial reflections
“It’s perfectly still on the water and the tessellated ice wall catches the white light of early morning. The melting ice has created geometrical shapes.” Technique: #digital Theme: #landscape #horiz
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