{"title":"Stardust Prints","description":"\u003cp\u003eTier I · Open edition. 6 × 9\" postcards on heavy card with a matte, glare-free finish. \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/edition-guide\"\u003eRead the Edition Guide →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-place-where-the-light-returns-open-edition-print","title":"The Place Where the Light Returns — Stardust Print","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpen Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStardust: 9 × 6 in. · 350 gsm silky smooth card\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Place Where the Light Returns\u003c\/em\u003e is the newest painting in \u003cem\u003eJack the Space Dog\u003c\/em\u003e, an ongoing series of science fiction paintings following Aon and his German Shepherd, Jack, through multidimensional space. 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The AI that has kept them alive so far can do nothing more for them unless they become part of that civilization. The change was never meant for their species, and they go through it without knowing if they will survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey come out of it as wholly new creatures who still look like themselves, with access to technology so advanced it would look like magic. Up to now, most of what happened to them was part choice, part chance. This was entirely a choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe small glowing form Jack is looking at is that AI, appearing as a physical object for the first time after months as a voice spread across the abandoned city. The three bands appear throughout the series whenever something is being transformed — matter into energy, gravity into force. Three bands around a glowing hub was the first image Aon ever had of this story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAon uses the full color spectrum in only a few paintings, saved for the biggest moments. The painting took about two months of painting time, after model-making, model photography and lighting studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack home, Aon's friend Victus, who built the folding drive, believes he killed him. Now that Aon and Jack can turn the planet's technology back on, they have a way home. 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It shows the planet where they crash-land: an ancient, unpopulated city with towers rising from the water. Each morning, Aon walks to a cliffside rock above the abandoned city and drinks a cup of coffee with Jack beside him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a painting about making the best of an impossible situation — being lost somewhere beautiful and choosing, for a moment, to simply be there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery architectural detail was worked out through physical models and lighting studies before it reached the canvas. 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