Territory

A nude woman with long pale-blonde hair stands with her back to the viewer on a stretch of scorched dark ground, a large fire blazing and smoking at the left edge of the canvas. Ahead of her, scattered across a barren, undulating landscape, sit several white domed pods with dark oval windows, receding toward a pale horizon under an open sky.

Warm orange and red firelight plays across her skin and hair on one side, while the wider scene is rendered in cool blue-grey and ochre tones, the paint smoothly blended with soft, controlled brushwork. The stark contrast between organic figure, elemental fire and the sterile, futuristic domes gives the picture an eerie, otherworldly stillness.