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Detail from painting of the planetoid landscape (work 385) (1978) (detail) |
a.i) In Giger's painting of the planetoid landscape (work 385) we see an image of the remains of a humanoid figure that would have been of the Space Jockey when they had decided to have it as something seen unnoticed on the surface of the planetoid landscape.
a.ii) Once I knew about this detail, and looked at the image that Ridley Scott selected from Necronom V the concept of the Space Jockey which appeared to be this nearly humanoid skeletal thing with one limb where the two legs would be, (SEE: Evolution via Giger's Necronomicon pt 1 (Early storyboard references Giger's Necronom V)
a.iii) So I began to wonder whether this space jockey corpse should have one lower limb or two. Giger's Alien landscape (work 385) Detail from painting of the planetoid landscape (work 385) (detail)
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Giger's Alien landscape (work 385) |
b.i) In 2013, Giger's Alien Diaries (7 & 8) were published and on page possible p42 of the actual book and page 23 of Giger's own diary number 7 was a drawing of the space jockey.
b.ii) This entity again looks as if it might have one limb for a leg or maybe the other one is hidden or it's just not clear, and one might think that it's cradled in the palm of a giant hand as if the rock shape at the bottom left is a thumb. dead alien astronaut sketch from Giger's Alien Diaries
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dead alien astronaut sketch from Giger's Alien Diaries |
Separate page for "Alien: HR Giger's Landscape (work 385) (1978) with alien astronaut corpse: One leg or two?" was created on October 31st 2020
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