Alienadia

I, snails and a virus have helped to bring forward Overshoot Day 2020. Who knows me, also knows my every slithering and dampish thing phobia. If I try to remember the moment in which my obsession was born, I can only remember the day in which my grandmother sent me in the garden to pick up tomatoes and at a certain point, I found an explorer worm climbing my calf. Another child, perhaps, would have been happy and curious to be visited by this peaceful animal, but I have gone mad and have continued to be so far, every time a worm or a snail crosses my way. Try to imagine my enthusiasm when I moved to London and I found a garden overrun by snails! But, mostly, can you imagine what I was thinking when I decided to make of it a vegetable garden? Pure madness! Four years are passed and the phobia didn’t disappear, but I realized that every time I pick up vegetables, in particular lettuce, chard and spinach, I use every leaf, also the ones clearly visited from my dear snails. I observe

To feel, or not to feel That is the question Nadia Camandona Jun 15 As a sci-fi fan, since I can remember, I always related myself with the existence of robots: from R. Daneel Olivaw , created by Isaac Asimov, to Arthur C. Clarke’s HAL 9000 , through the exploring of the Star Trek android, Data , of his inability to feel emotions, the unforgettable androids in Alien series ( Ash , Bishop , Bishop II , Cale , and David/Walter in its prequels), the ruthless Terminator (or, more specifically, Skynet ), the sapient program in Matrix, The Oracle , and so on. After all my life spent dreaming of the existence of the robots — and specu...

My tribute to his creators H.R. Giger and Dan O'Bannon.Exploration. Acrylic on canvas. 36"x24".Credits O’Bannon’s Alien D3 . H.R. Giger (1977) N. 238, The Spell II (detail), H.R. Giger (1974) I discovered the Master H.R. Giger many years after I have seen Alien, the movie. I was highly impressed by the Alien but I didn’t think of his creator until I restarted to paint and I started to research inspiration models. It was obvious that an incredible creature as Alien has been created only by a genius. And finally, Giger appeared on my path, giving a new meaning for my passion for Alien: behind the perfect physiology of this creature there w...