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SDL InnerSpace Origins
Blog category for SDL InnerSpace. Articles about SDL InnerSpace Origins. Author Sam Diellor Luani.


SDL2025-G01C02-I20 Albanian Eagle
The reason why my most emotional works in visual art are in red and black is the Albanian flag. This work is a tribute to this flag and the Albanian Eagle.


SDL2025-G01C02-I19 Newborn Stars
This image from 1997 was the first “pilot work” in my first collection of space images, born from the same poetic seed as the rest: an old Swedish poem of mine about “newborn stars watching through the mist, like curious eyes.”


SDL2025-G01C02-I18 Old Cave Wall
Item Identity: SDL2025-G01C02-I18 Title: Old Cave Wall Artist: Sam Diellor Luani Collection: SDL InnerSpace Origins Section: Raster Retro...


SDL2025-G01C02-I17 Colored Clay
This work is one of my earliest topographic works—assembled in 1996 using a montage of vector shapes with solid and textured fills, then beveled, embossed, and refined in Photoshop. It wasn’t created to be a texture, but as a standalone work of art. Still, it has served as a foundational source for several textures over the years.


Gallery: SDL2025-G01C02 SDL InnerSpace Origins Raster Retro
SDL InnerSpace Origins Raster Retro is a part of SDL InnerSpace Origins with raster graphics created with basic tools and techniques, before 2002.


SDL2025-G01C02-I16 Celestial Surface
This is one of my oldest “asteroid textures,” created in 1995—long before SDL InnerSpace had a name. It’s never been used in any work, but it’s stayed with me for decades. Why? Because it was a moment of discovery.


Gallery: SDL2025-G01C01 SDL InnerSpace Origins Vector Vintage
SDL InnerSpace Origins Vector Vintage contains vector graphics created in old graphic editors like Macromedia Flash and Micrografx Designer, in the early 1990s.


SDL2025-G01C01-I01 Robo Crop Cover
This is the cover image of SDL InnerSpace Origins—a gateway and tribute to the earliest seeds of my digital creativity.


SDL2025-G01C01-I43 Eyeflower
This vector was sketched in 1996 in Macromedia Flash and Micrografx Designer, from a bad raster, a poorly rendered splash stain


SDL2025-G01C01-I11 Smiling Dining Spoon
A surreal pastiche assembled in PowerPoint in 2024, this image features a sentient spoon seated at a dinner table, smiling with gleaming teeth. The spoon was originally drawn in 1993


SDL2025-G01C01-I10 Pastiche In The Diche
This 1994 piece is one of my oldest intentional pastiches in digital art, designed to pretend to be highlighting the anatomy of digital clipart. It doesn’t depict a fish—it depicts the idea


SDL2025-G01C01-I09 L-ink
This image could be a technical drawing of a mechanical or structural component shown in two views.


SDL2025-G01C01-I08 Soft Matter Wire Spring
This image was created in 1994, as a part of a longer study in transforming meaningless clipart into meaningful art.


SDL2025-G01C01-I06 Night Bride
Created in 1994, Night Bride is a study in visual paradox and character design. It features a single face that morphs into two or three identities depending on which features are emphasized.


SDL2025-G01C01-I07 Castle of Horror
This 1994 vector drawing is a masterclass in kitsch management. Castle Of Horror begins with a cliché—gothic towers, bats, and a moonlit sky—but transforms it into a poetic pastiche.


SDL2025-G01C01-I05 Rhombulus
This is one of my oldest digital portraits, drawn directly on document, in 1992 from two rhombuses and polygonal shapes


SDL2025-G01C01-I03 Clear Eye
This image was originally drawn on a transparent overhead sheet in 1986, and scanned and vectorized in 1993


SDL2025-G01C01-I04 Clasped Hands
Originally drawn in 1988 on an overhead sheet, this image is a visual illusion, a double image that can be seen as both a ....


SDL2025-G01C01-I02 Graboid Shark
Born from a late-night brainstorming session in 1992, Graboid Shark is a monstrous hybrid—a chimera of Jaws and Tremors.


Gallery: SDL2025-G01 SDL InnerSpace Origins
SDL InnerSpace Origins is a prelude to my Project SDL InnerSpace, showcasing the earliest seeds of my graphic journey, from archives dating back to 1992, and reveals the foundational motor skills, conceptual motifs, and artistic philosophies that have shaped my work.
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