ASCII art

Drawn in characters.

This is my corner for ASCII art. Some pieces are imitations of other works — a painting, the Moon, pictures from space telescopes — and others are purely my own ideas.

Open any piece to step inside it.

01 Own idea

The Eye

“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

02 Own idea

Blossom on the Summit

“In the cherry blossom’s shade
there’s no such thing
as a stranger.”

Kobayashi Issa

03 Own idea

Black Hole

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”

Blaise Pascal, Pensées

04 After NASA’s lunar maps

The Moon

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

Mark Twain, Following the Equator

05 After the Hubble Space Telescope

Pillars of Creation

“We are made of star-stuff.”

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

06 After the Spitzer Space Telescope

Cepheus B & C

“Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them.”

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

07 After the James Webb Space Telescope

N159

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

08 After Thomas Cole, 1836

Destruction

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”