Welcome to the Fantastic Surrealist and Space-Themed Art of Chilam Click on the various images to visit these strange and wonderful worlds and the spacecraft that traverse them THE VISITORS Acrylic on Canvasboard --- 1992 A strange girl on a strange horse on a strange alien world watches intently as two saucer-shaped objects appear in the sky. NEW ARTWORK COMING SOON Digital (Blender™ and Photoshop™) --- 2023 Details are imminent ! SATURN V Moon Rocket GUEST BOOK: Please sign. ANCIENT ALIEN SPACECRAFT CODENAME: "SCORPION" Digital (Blender™ and Photoshop™) --- 2020 Recently discovered on a rogue planetesimal, the artefact is code-named SCORPION. It is a deep-space cruiser of extraordinarily sophisticated technology and believed to be alien in origin.. TOP SECRET DISCOVERY Digital (Blender™ and Photoshop™) --- 2020 This remarkable vessel is a masterpiece of bio-engineering technology far beyond the ability of Humans, and appears to be composed of living matter and metallo-proteins. Its origins and purpose are unknown. It is believed to be some sort of spy-craft.         MOTHER-SUN Acrylic on Canvasboard --- 1988 The source of life. The living world is attached to its parent sun by an umbilical cord as a fœtus in the womb. All life is on the inside surface of the world as in a closed system. Information enters into the world by the umbilical/optic nerve and passes between the eye and the synaptic nerve center. The soul-ship, with its spider-web sails sets sail from the dead world to this new world of life. WINGS OVER NIRVANA Acrylic on Canvasboard --- 1989 The state of perfect celestial order: Is there such a thing? The more complex a system becomes, the more a factor of chaos comes into play. Note the missing aircraft. VOYAGER FLIES PAST JUPITER Digital (Blender™ and Photoshop™) --- 2016 Forty years ago, the Voyager probes began their epic journeys to the outer planets and beyond. Voyager 1 yeilded spectacular images and data on Jupiter. This piece pays tribute to that history-making space flight. Voyager 1 is now the most distant human-made object in the universe. VINTAGE FLYING SAUCER Digital (Blender™) --- 2013 Ever since The Roswell Incident, alien spacecraft have been the mainstay of science-fiction art. In the 1950s, nothing was more iconic than the flying saucer. Throughout the cold war, images of flying disks captured the public imagination, stoked our fears and stimulated our sense of wonder. The UFO became a cultural phenomenon. For anyone born before the Space-Age, this should bring back both fond and scary memories. ALIEN ARTEFACT: SPACECRAFT InDesign™ --- 2004 Recently discovered on a rogue planetesimal, the artifact code-named Scorpion is a deep-space cruiser of extraordinarily sophisticated technology and believed to be alien in origin. The vessel is a masterpiece of bio-engineering and appears to be composed of living matter and metallo-proteins. Its origins and purpose are unknown. It is believed to be some sort of spy-craft. FLIGHT OF THE SCORPION Acrylic on Canvasboard --- 1989 The pilot Reylan Merak takes the recently-discovered alien star-cruiser Scorpion on a flight into deep space. Original in the collection of  Greg Slade. PLANET-RISE ON ENCELADUS Pen & Ink on Paper --- 2006 The planet Saturn as seen from its third-largest moon, Enceladus. Note the visitors in vintage fifties-style spacecraft and Titan in the distance. ESCAPE FROM ACHERON Acrylic on Canvasboard --- 1993 The Last Battlefield. The soldier, stripped of his armor & weapons, makes a futile attempt to evade the Recognizers; Is he destined to spend the rest of eternity running? Original in the collection of  R. Graeme Cameron. DEEP SPACE Stock Photo The infinite sky: once thought to be a shell around the Earth separating it from heaven, the depths of space have not lost their sense of wonder in the light of scientific discovery.

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