Ahh, Im so excited to share my artwork with everyone! I absolutely loved Peoject Hail Mary and I just had to make an art piece.

I'm going to watch it again.

I feel that while Grace is focus on trying to understand how something works, without breaking it, as he tried to do with the astrophage before accidentaly killing it, Simon and Rocky would be the kind of person that disassemble something to be able to learn from it. While Grace is rambling about a very complex and specific plan he has, they would be "like interesting, very interestings, but we have a simpliest solution."

Other things I thought:

Rocky and Simon disassembling parts of the Hail Mary to then put them back again, just for then be scolded by Grace.

Grace having to give them some kind of playdoh, or legos so they can stay still, while he is trying to do some sciences.

Rocky and Simon tryin to do "improvements" to different things around the Hail Mary or the Biodome.

Rocky discovering the wonders of adhesive tape.

rocky watch. rocky job very important.

Grace: *on his hands and knees* I feel the vibrations in the floor. *taps the floor repeatedly*

Rocky: *unafraid because he knows humans need their eyesight and have not evolved to echolocate*

Grace: *clicks his fingers in one direction, then clicks them in Rocky’s direction*

Grace: *gasp*

Grace: *pokes Rocky’s sphere*

Rocky:

Bobbin lace is probably the most common. You're most likely to have a shirt with those decals on it or use it for decoration. Having that many limbs makes it easy to sit down and make a design; it's a common gift for parents to give to their grown children expecting pebbles.

Needle lace however is a lot more complex. Huge, intricate pieces that take years to make even with 5 arms and a crystalline brain. A finished lace tapestry can take years with several Eridian lace-makers who dedicate their lives to the craft. Thrums are often used to get the product done faster, with 5 Eridians on each end working outward and communicating in sync. It's a beautiful process to watch. A traditional technique is to start at a single point and work outwards with no plan, making a complex and unique piece. These are rare and usually owned by Eridians with high-ranking jobs.

At the memorial for Blip-A's crew is a massive tapestry meticulously created over the course of a decade. Small pieces of the families' carapaces have been woven in alongside an intricate, sectioned pattern. The piece can be read like a book—the lace echos back the frequencies of the crew's voices, immortalizing them in Eridian history forever.

In Rocky and Adrian's home is a tapestry from the ceremony of the night they mated, a common tradition for Eridian couples. Over the course of the event, the Eridians in attendance work off the hexagon representing the couple's courtship. No one involved is usually a master craftsman, so the work is a little all over the place. It functions as a quest-book, echoing the memory off the walls of their home.

thinking about our saviour before going to bed…

sketch under the cut!

Humans’ primary sense and therefore means to engage with the world is sight. And it is reflected on the development of our culture and our earliest ways of self expression.

Everyone knows the handprints:

But that is not the oldest art we’ve found (though probably one of the most famous ones). There are quite a few others, but the oldest known form of art was a shell carving, dated 500 000 BP. Made not even by Homo Sapiens but by Homo Erectus.

So knowing this, how would art form directed to hearing look like? (I’m not talking about songs, although, they undeniably would’ve been one of their first ways of self expression. I would like to explore physical forms of art here.)

Surprisingly, we have quite a few examples to draw from here on Earth. Structures and installations created with an explicit purpose of making sounds:

But all that is a handmade art. And from our culture we know that first art pieces were inspired by the art of nature. Humans saw nature and replicated or used it to express themselves.

So let me show you natural structures that can “sing” and therefore be the first inspiration for ancient Eridians.

The cave on the second picture even called “Bell Cave” because of its incredible acoustics.

So what is the conclusion?

In my humble opinion, first art in Eridian culture followed these natural structures — hollowed out rocks, carvings that captured wind, canyon-like structures that guided streams of air.

With time they, would, of course, advance and diverse. And the development of xenonite would cause an explosion of art because of its versatility.

It is safe to assume (from what I wrote above), that in modern times they construct marvelous structures that create intricate and complex songs both artificially and naturally.

Imagine Eridians “gallery” being the whole valley near the city, that is not only an amazing listening experience, but also built in complex and unique patterns and from various materials that illustrate those sounds when echolocation picks them.

‘First Encounter’

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Because the blocks produce sounds when Rocky touches them—are they making sounds from home? Messages perhaps? Little audio reminders?